{"id":2745,"date":"2019-08-20T15:00:10","date_gmt":"2019-08-20T19:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/security-information-event-management\/?p=2745"},"modified":"2019-11-20T13:51:25","modified_gmt":"2019-11-20T17:51:25","slug":"how-to-improve-your-enterprises-soc-efficiency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/security-information-event-management\/how-to-improve-your-enterprises-soc-efficiency\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Improve Your Enterprise’s SOC Efficiency"},"content":{"rendered":"

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How can your enterprise improve your enterprise’s SOC efficiency? Why should your business invest in a SOC? What cybersecurity solutions<\/a> should your SOC work most closely?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

With an efficient and optimized security operations center (SOC), your enterprise benefits from even greater cybersecurity monitoring. Also, you can enjoy improved incident response, threat intelligence, and its application, and reduced cybersecurity costs.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n


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However, optimizing your security operations center can prove incredibly challenging. After all, you still rely on human intelligence and InfoSec technology in your SOC, which opens yourself to vulnerabilities.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

So how can you improve your SOC efficiency? First, let\u2019s break down the reasons SOCs break down.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

What Can Reduce SOC Efficiency?\u00a0<\/b><\/h2>\n

The most glaring issue facing SOC efficiency in modern cybersecurity is the cybersecurity staffing crisis.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Of course, cybersecurity experts around the world long noted the dangers the cybersecurity staffing crisis brings. Millions of cybersecurity positions go unfilled every year, and many more look to go unfilled in the coming years. Without proper cybersecurity talent, your enterprise may struggle to properly maintain your solutions and to process security data.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Moreover, understaffed IT security teams, by their nature, place a heavier burden on each member of the team. Therefore each team member faces a higher possibility of burnout as they try to keep up with your enterprise\u2019s demands. Burnout can lead to delays in investigations, patches, and other maintenance\u2014it can in fact lead to abandoned cybersecurity processes.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Relatedly, without the right investment in your SOC, any effort to improve your SOC efficiency is doomed to failure. Indeed, you cannot and should not choose to rely on legacy solutions in your SOC. Legacy solutions won\u2019t provide your IT team with the right threat intelligence to perform their duties. Simultaneously, they won\u2019t have the capabilities necessary to facilitate your teams\u2019 efforts.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Finally, you need to consider the dangers posed by the very tool your SOC teams rely on: your security alerts. Recent studies found SOCs spent a quarter of their time chasing down false positives in their security alerts. Worse, the average enterprise faces thousands upon thousands of security alerts every week.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

With these downsides firmly established…\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

How to Improve Your Enterprise’s SOC Efficiency<\/b><\/h2>\n

SIEM Can Improve Your SOC Efficiency<\/b><\/h3>\n

Every SOC needs a strong, next-generation SIEM<\/a> solution to function optimally. If you plant to improve your enterprise\u2019s SOC efficiency, you need to select a cybersecurity solution befitting your use case.<\/span><\/p>\n

Why? SIEM provides your enterprise with the power to collect and process logs and data from multiple network sources. Additionally, you need the threat detection, security correlation, and analysis so your team can initiate prompt remediation.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

But how can SIEM truly improve your SOC efficiency? First, through SIEM<\/a>, you can utilize capabilities like UEBA and contextualization. The former helps identify users\u2019 baseline behaviors and detect abnormalities. The latter provides preliminary investigations to detail the users, databases, and activities involved in an alert. These enable your team to identify false positives far more easily and thus reduce the workload facing your team.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Above all, SIEM can increase your SOC\u2019s productivity and facilitate your existing cybersecurity mandates.<\/span><\/p>\n

Work to Reduce Burnout<\/b><\/h3>\n

Overwhelming expectations and burdens abound in cybersecurity. Unfortunately, your SOC operates in a high-pressure field with numerous stressors.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In fact, being a part of your security operations center actually contributes to your team\u2019s burnout rates. After all, they face the sophisticated threats, continuous alerts, and the weight of missing cybersecurity.<\/span><\/p>\n

Moreover, many members of your team may feel a dangerous fear of failure. Hackers only need to succeed once for your enterprise to suffer a data breach. That would inflict burnout on even the most determined InfoSec professional.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

So how can your enterprise reduce burnout?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n