Why you should SOC it to cybercriminals, regardless of your size

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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.

So, why not start your own SOC?

Right now, the cybersecurity industry lacks at least four million professionals, and it’s predicted the shortfall will grow to 85 million by 2030. This makes finding, recruiting and funding trained professionals a challenge for most small-medium organisations.

Gartner estimates, "By 2025, 33% of organizations that currently have internal security functions will attempt and fail to build an effective internal SOC due to resource constraints, such as lack of budget, expertise and staffing.”

Turning to your managed security service provider (MSSP) for faster, more efficient, and cost-effective round-the-clock SOC services offers the resources and skills you need without the overhead. Additionally, an outsourced SOC comes with subject matter experts attuned to your industry and with up-to-the-minute knowledge due to constant exposure to threats.

Who needs a SOC?

Any business of any size requiring:

1. A partnership approach to managing cybersecurity and relieving the burden of responsibility from an internal team
2. Help to safeguard a highly regulated, high-risk environment
3. Access to cybersecurity engineers, analysts, a virtual CISO, and subject matter experts who can apply a focused industry lens
4. An affordable, low-stress approach to expertly managed cybersecurity services
5. Scaled support without added complexity
6. Triaged alerts to remove false positives and only highlight genuine threats
7. A process of ongoing improvement that goes beyond tuning security settings to include policy settings and cyber strategy

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