Security Operations Center

Security operation center (SOC) is an integrated and centralized facility within an organization’s infrastructure. SOC requires people, processes and various technologies to continuously monitor, analyze and improve security posture of an organization. Furthermore, it is a centralized function within an organization, which consists of people, processes, and technologies (PPT) to continuously monitor and improve the security posture of an organization. It further focuses on preventing, detecting, analyzing and responding to cybersecurity incidents and threats in a timely manner. It is established to prevent, detect, analyze and respond to different security incidents cyberattacks.

SOC is consisted of team of security experts and analysts that proactively monitor and protect the infrastructures, systems, applications and other assets of an organization from cyberattacks. Moreover, the purpose of the SOC is to proactively monitor, prevent, detect, investigate and respond to security threats in real time.

The main tasks of SOC team may include the following:

• Monitoring activities continuously and proactively
• Handle incident response and recovery processes
• Participate in remediation activities
• Log management
• Compliance management

Network operation center (NOC) and security operation center (SOC) work in collaboration to enable business operate securely. They have some differences and similarities. NOC is primarily responsible for ensuring that the IT infrastructure of an organization meets security expectations and sustains normal operations of business. Whereas SOC is concerned with protecting the infrastructure and network from cyberattacks and security threats. However, both NOC and SOC are teams of experts who are tasked with ensuring that the infrastructure, networks, systems and applications of an organization are functioning properly.