Building and Managing an Effective Security Operations Center

An information security operations involves monitoring, assessing, and defending enterprise information systems. For organizations without a formalized incident-handling capability, the creation from scratch of a security operations center that enables centralized visibility, alerting and investigation can be a daunting task. But fortunately organizations don’t need a room full of security experts and an investment of millions of dollars in security systems to make progress here. This book explains how to develop an effective security operations center (SOC) and provides a roadmap for continuously evolving this capability to keep pace with the tactics of the adversaries.