INFOGRAPHIC: The Roles and Responsibilities of SOC Teams

Security Operations Centres protect enterprise operations, keeping their digital assets secure. They’re both the front line and the strategic command centre. SOC teams rely on key individuals working 24x7 to ensure IT system integrity.

A SOC team is expected to manage many responsibilities across several functions. Typically, their positions cover two broad areas of responsibility:

• Maintaining security monitoring and analysing your security on an ongoing basis. They’ll detect, investigate and respond to security incidents using a combination of people, processes and technology.
• Proactively investigate suspicious activities and ensure that potential security incidents are correctly defended, identified, analysed, and escalated to secure your infrastructure.

Although companies may name titles differently, all businesses have similar responsibilities regarding cyber security.

So, if you’re tasked with setting up an SOC or looking for an outsourced SOC team, we’ll examine a best practice structure for the common roles and their associated tasks and duties to guide you toward SOC team success.

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