Cybercriminals are democratic at heart. Small businesses can expect as many cyberattacks (if not more) as mid-large organisations. Yet worryingly, 50% of the smallest companies (by revenue) say they don’t – or don’t know – if they have the resources to meet their cyber objectives.
Today, cybersecurity is a 24/7/365 activity for any business of any size. The days of an IT manager ‘going it alone’ (with fragmented weekends or holidays) are well and truly over. Even a medium-large company with a well-resourced technology team can struggle to do justice to its business-critical digital projects when all hands are on deck to counter or mitigate a threat.
Protecting your organisation effectively requires trained professionals and specialist tools and platforms to monitor, hunt, and manage threats, safeguard data, respond to incidents, remediate damage, and enforce governance.
Which is where a SOC comes in.
First - what's a SOC?
A SOC (Security Operations Centre) is a 24/7/365 in-house or outsourced team of analysts who use a range of proven technology solutions to monitor, investigate and respond to threats to your network.
A well-provisioned and resourced SOC will also continuously analyse your threat posture, looking for ways to improve it so you can become more resilient, recover more quickly, and meet your business and legal governance obligations.