Cyber criminals are showing no sign of slowing down, which means as an organisation you need to ensure you are protected day and night from all vectors. A Managed SOC is an increasingly popular solution for organisations looking to protect their networks 24/7/365 as it delivers all-round coverage by a skilled cybersecurity team without the costly investment of building it in-house. Because the Managed SOC holds the responsibility of defending your networks from cyberattacks, your team is free to focus on the specifics of running your business. We explain more in this article.
What is a Managed SOC?
Managed SOC (aka SOC-as-a-Service or SOCaaS) providers oversee the company’s IT infrastructure, including networks, devices, applications, and data, for both existing and emerging vulnerabilities, threats and risks.
With a service like this you can expect a comprehensive suite of security solutions such as lowering dwell time which minimises the amount of time an attacker can go undetected within a system, reducing ransomware risk, identifying malware, mitigating insider threats as well as vulnerability visibility. Additionally, these services include security analytics/reporting to help organisations bolster their security posture.
How the managed SOC works
A managed Security Operations Center (SOC) provider supplies clients with regular reports on identified threats, response times, and the general state of security. By outsourcing these responsibilities to a managed SOC provider, organisations can free up internal resources, letting them focus on their main activities while a team of experts handles security monitoring and incident response.
This setup helps organisations enhance their security protocols and make up for a lack of internal resources or know-how while trusting that their digital assets are being protected by expert professionals.
The Critical Hour
Leveraging intelligence from across a large customer base and other threat monitoring activities, the SOC offers peace of mind by continuously observing your IT infrastructure, data centres, cloud services and endpoints for irregularities and providing rapid response to any breaches observed by expert security staff within the “Critical Hour” (this refers to the crucial period of time after a security incident or breach has occurred when containment and mitigation are most vital – the first 60 mins). In the event your systems are compromised, teams will act quickly to ensure business impact is minimised – or even circumvented entirely – and that the threat is safely contained.
The SOC will aggregate and correlate data from disparate systems to provide a holistic view across an organisations entire infrastructure and all threat activity – such as endpoint, email, cloud, network and servers.
24/7/365 Real-time threat monitoring and guidance from a team of security experts that are divided into dedicated teams for around-the-clock coverage. The SOC infrastructure includes Security, Orchestration, Automation & Response (SOAR) and machine learning to ensure only legitimate alerts are investigated and escalated in a timely manner.
The service allows dedicated teams to build layers of security around customers’ data, devices, and users. This defence-in-depth strategy will enable partners to provide all the necessary protection that businesses need.
Barracuda XDR Cloud Security is a managed security service that provides monitoring for malicious activity in the cloud. It is backed by a 24/7 Security Operations Center (SOC) to streamline response to incidents reducing the damage the attack can do to your customers.
To find out more about Barracuda or the Managed SOC service on offer contact our team who can help.
