Automating security at AWS: How Amazon Web Services operates with no SOC
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has become one of the largest technology companies in the world. The cloud giant has over 20 data center locations and more than a million customers. Given the size of its customer base, it’s little surprise that outages make the headlines like few other companies. A single human error in 2017…
93% of SOC managers unable to triage all potential threats
In mid-2016, Intel Security commissioned a primary research study to gain a deeper understanding of the ways in which enterprises use SOCs, how they have changed over time, and what they will look like in the future. Interviews with nearly 400 security practitioners across several countries, industries and company sizes yielded valuable information on the…
From Chasing Alerts to Hunting Threats: What Makes an Effective SOC is Evolving
Whether you call it a SOC, a CSOC, a Cyber Defense Center, or something else, security operation centers have the same fundamental mission – to help organizations detect, analyze, respond to, report on, and prevent cyber security incidents. But what it takes to do that effectively has changed in this ever-evolving threat landscape, putting an…