The SOC Monitoring Team’s Top Priority: Investigating Potential Incidents
A SOC (Security Operations Center) monitoring team plays a crucial role in an organization’s cyber defence program. As the security experts of the organization, the team's primary duty is to protect the organization against cyberattacks. SOC teams must fulfill a number of responsibilities to effectively manage security incidents, including: Investigating Potential Incidents: SOC teams receive a large number of alerts. After initial triage, the team must investigate potential incidents and determine which issues are real attacks, which ones require immediate action, and which ones can be safely discarded.
Investigate Vulnerabilities
The first step in any incident response is identifying the scope of the event. This includes understanding what systems and data were impacted, as well as ass...