Businesses must monitor network traffic, network appliances, and the cybersecurity technology dedicated to protecting corporate data and resources in a secure environment.
A Security Operations Center (SOC) and a Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) platform are two separate ways of monitoring a network environment. Yet, they operate together to help organizations prevent data breaches and notify them of present or future cyber-events.
What is SOC Security?
A Security Operations Center is a centralized mechanism within an organization that uses people, procedures, and technology to continually monitor and enhance the security architecture of the business while preventing, detecting, analyzing, and responding to cybersecurity breaches.
SOCs function as a central command post, collecting data from across an organization’s IT infrastructure and its networks, devices, appliances, and data stores, regardless of where those assets get located.
What is SIEM Security?
On the other hand, a Security Information and Event Management system is a set of cybersecurity components that oversee network traffic and resources. It is a centralized dashboard of security information used to convey alarms and suspicious network behavior to a security analyst from the user’s perspective.
Security analysts can detect a breach by actively searching for threats based on data obtained in logs. Threat hunting features in a SIEM can assist with newly discovered threats. For example, a novel strain of malware might be undetectable by antivirus software. Still, a SIEM could detect anomalous traffic exploring a network resource and notify SOC analysts to investigate further.
How SOC and SIEM Compliment Each Other
SOC engineers work directly with a SIEM platform to evaluate network traffic and events. The SIEM platform aids SOC employees’ capacity to swiftly assess if a threat compromises the network and work directly to contain it. Multiple threats could penetrate resources in an unmonitored network environment, but an intelligent SIEM gives the right information and alarm system for SOC staff to identify them.
In addition, the SIEM platform gets employed within a SOC, and security analysts use these platforms daily. Artificial intelligence (AI) is used in some SIEM solutions to automate intrusion detection and prevention. Although a SOC analyst still gets required for threat containment and eradication, the SIEM will monitor network traffic, potentially deny access, and send an alert to a security analyst who will investigate the incident further.
Although having a SIEM is not required to have a SOC, the two cybersecurity solutions protect internal assets. A SOC team without a SIEM lacks the necessary capabilities to detect and contain threats.
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