Imagine waking up to the news that your company’s most valuable data has been encrypted.
Not good, right?
Your company is under attack – someone is seeking a ransom to release your data.
Your disaster recovery plan is not working!
The Heartbeat of Cyber Defense
It’s the ultimate fear of any business owner: the cyber-attack. But it’s also the moment where the Security Operations Center (SOC) shines. SOCs are one of the weapons in any organization’s cyber defense quiver.
They are always looking for threats, always on the lookout for things that could wreak havoc on your system. They keep your digital assets safe.
Preparation: Effective Incident Response
Managed SOC services offer an elevated version of this, with skilled and trained personnel looking for threats all hours of the day, all week, all year, and without the cost of having a large SOC and expensive mission center.
Detection: The First Line of Defense
Your business SOC’s response to potential threats against your digital assets begins with a plan. A plan that has been forged by your SOC specifically tailored to combat threats against its systems.
It details the protection measures in place, the preparation, and the people tasked with the job.
Analysis: Decoding the Threat
From there, the incident response dance begins. If the threat is detected by the SOC, then it’s time to investigate. The objective is to determine everything you can about the threat, what it is, and what it can do to your system.
The more you know about how you can most effectively respond to the threat.
Containment: Stopping the Spread
From there, your job is to ensure that the threat is not able to deal any more damage and that it’s not moving. In some cases, this may mean shutting down a portion of a network.
You could do this by adjusting settings, or you could use a configuration patch
Eradication: Removing the Threat
Your SOC will have a plan with multiple weapons to kill a threat, be it a virus or malware.
Recovery: Returning to Normal
The recovery is a way to get things back to how they should be working. SOCs can get everything that isn’t working right back up, and make sure it’s safe and secured.
That might mean things need to recover data from their backups, rebuild a machine that’s been wrecked, or put in more defenses.
The Power of Managed SOC Services
Managed SOC services give another layer of protection. Managed SOC services help ensure that a company has access to industry-best security experts, monitoring abilities, and technology by offering experienced security monitoring and response capabilities.
The best part?
It doesn’t result in a colossal drain on your in-house resources. Managed SOC services ensure companies are focusing on digitally transforming whilst having the piece of mind that professional security staff are looking after them.
Conclusion
As we have seen recently, in the digital world, it is not if there are going to be security incidents, it’s just when. But with a solid SOC and incident response plan companies can really lower risk proactively and recover quickly if there ever was an incident.