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Security Operations Center Building, Operating, and Maintaining Your SOC The complete, practical guide to planning, building, and operating an effective Security Operations Center (SOC) Security Operations Center is the complete guide to building, operating, and managing Security Operations Centers in any environment. Drawing on experience with hundreds of customers ranging from Fortune 500 enterprises to large military organizations, three leading experts thoroughly review each SOC model, including virtual SOCs. You’ll learn how to select the right strategic option for your organization, and then plan and execute the strategy you’ve chosen. Security Operations Center walks you through every phase required to establish and run an effective SOC, including all significant people, process, and technology capabilities. The authors assess SOC technologies, strategy, infrastructure, governance, planning, implementation, and more. They take a holistic approach considering various commercial and open-source tools found in modern SOCs. This best-practice guide is written for anybody interested in learning how to develop, manage, or improve a SOC. A background in network security, management, and operations will be helpful but is not required. It is also an indispensable resource for anyone preparing for the Cisco SCYBER exam. · Review high-level issues, such as vulnerability and risk management, threat intelligence, digital investigation, and data collection/analysis · Understand the technical components of a modern SOC · Assess the current state of your SOC and identify areas of improvement · Plan SOC strategy, mission, functions, and services · Design and build out SOC infrastructure, from facilities and networks to systems, storage, and physical security · Collect and successfully analyze security data · Establish an effective vulnerability management practice · Organize incident response teams and measure their performance · Define an optimal governance and staffing model · Develop a practical SOC handbook that people can actually use · Prepare SOC to go live, with comprehensive transition plans · React quickly and collaboratively to security incidents · Implement best practice security operations, including continuous enhancement and improvement

In the digital age, cybersecurity is not just a necessity, but a paramount responsibility. With an ever-evolving landscape of threats, setting up and managing a Security Operations Center (SOC) has become an integral part of maintaining the security posture of organizations. "How to Manage a Security Operations Center (SOC)" is an essential guide penned by Kris Hermans, a renowned expert in the field of cybersecurity. With decades of experience in setting up and managing SOCs around the globe, Kris shares his wealth of knowledge in this comprehensive guide. In this book, you will: Understand the fundamentals of a SOC and its vital role in an organization. Learn the steps to plan, set up, and equip your SOC. Discover effective strategies for recruiting and training a competent security team. Gain insights into managing the day-to-day operations of a SOC. Explore advanced concepts like threat intelligence, incident response, and continuous improvement for your SOC.

Security Operations Center Guidebook: A Practical Guide for a Successful SOC provides everything security professionals need to create and operate a world-class Security Operations Center. It starts by helping professionals build a successful business case using financial, operational, and regulatory requirements to support the creation and operation of an SOC. It then delves into the policies and procedures necessary to run an effective SOC and explains how to gather the necessary metrics to persuade upper management that a company’s SOC is providing value. This comprehensive text also covers more advanced topics, such as the most common Underwriter Laboratory (UL) listings that can be acquired, how and why they can help a company, and what additional activities and services an SOC can provide to maximize value to a company. Helps security professionals build a successful business case for a Security Operations Center, including information on the necessary financial, operational, and regulatory requirements Includes the required procedures, policies, and metrics to consider Addresses the often opposing objectives between the security department and the rest of the business with regard to security investments Features objectives, case studies, checklists, and samples where applicable

Do you know what weapons are used to protect against cyber warfare and what tools to use to minimize their impact? How can you gather intelligence that will allow you to configure your system to ward off attacks? Online security and privacy issues are becoming more and more significant every day, with many instances of companies and governments mishandling (or deliberately misusing) personal and financial data. Organizations need to be committed to defending their own assets and their customers’ information. Designing and Building a Security Operations Center will show you how to develop the organization, infrastructure, and capabilities to protect your company and your customers effectively, efficiently, and discreetly. Written by a subject expert who has consulted on SOC implementation in both the public and private sector, Designing and Building a Security Operations Center is the go-to blueprint for cyber-defense. Explains how to develop and build a Security Operations Center Shows how to gather invaluable intelligence to protect your organization Helps you evaluate the pros and cons behind each decision during the SOC-building process

The Industry Standard, Vendor-Neutral Guide to Managing SOCs and Delivering SOC Services This completely new, vendor-neutral guide brings together all the knowledge you need to build, maintain, and operate a modern Security Operations Center (SOC) and deliver security services as efficiently and cost-effectively as possible. Leading security architect Joseph Muniz helps you assess current capabilities, align your SOC to your business, and plan a new SOC or evolve an existing one. He covers people, process, and technology; explores each key service handled by mature SOCs; and offers expert guidance for managing risk, vulnerabilities, and compliance. Throughout, hands-on examples show how advanced red and blue teams execute and defend against real-world exploits using tools like Kali Linux and Ansible. Muniz concludes by previewing the future of SOCs, including Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) cloud technologies and increasingly sophisticated automation. This guide will be indispensable for everyone responsible for delivering security services—managers and cybersecurity professionals alike. * Address core business and operational requirements, including sponsorship, management, policies, procedures, workspaces, staffing, and technology * Identify, recruit, interview, onboard, and grow an outstanding SOC team * Thoughtfully decide what to outsource and what to insource * Collect, centralize, and use both internal data and external threat intelligence * Quickly and efficiently hunt threats, respond to incidents, and investigate artifacts * Reduce future risk by improving incident recovery and vulnerability management * Apply orchestration and automation effectively, without just throwing money at them * Position yourself today for emerging SOC technologies

Security Operation Center (SOC), as the name suggests, is a central operation center which deals with information and cyber security events by employing people, processes, and technology. It continuously monitors and improves an organization's security posture. It is considered to be the first line of defense against cyber security threats. This book has 6 Main Chapters for you to understand how to Manage Modern Security Operations Center & Building Perfect Career as SOC Analyst which is stated below: Chapter 1: Security Operations and Management Chapter 2: Cyber Threat, IoCs, and Attack Methodologies Chapter 3: Incident, Event, and Logging Chapter 4: Incident Detection with SIEM Chapter 5: Enhanced Incident Detection with Threat Intelligence Chapter 6: Incident Response HOW A SECURITY OPERATIONS CENTER WORKS: Rather than being focused on developing a security strategy, designing security architecture, or implementing protective measures, the SOC team is responsible for the ongoing, operational component of enterprise information security. Security operations center staff consists primarily of security analysts who work together to detect, analyze, respond to, report on, and prevent cybersecurity incidents. Additional capabilities of some SOCs can include advanced forensic analysis, cryptanalysis, and malware reverse engineering to analyze incidents.

Blue Team Handbook: SOC, SIEM, and Threat Hunting Use Cases provides the security practitioner with numerous field notes on building a security operations team and mining data sources to get the maximum amount of information out of them with a threat hunting approach. The author shares his fifteen years of experience with SIEMs and security operations after implementing five major platforms, integrating over one hundred data sources into various platforms, and running a MSSP practice.This book covers the topics below using a "zero fluff" approach as if you hired him as a security consultant and were sitting across the table with him (or her). Topics covered include:* The book begins with a discussion for professionals to help them build a successful business case and a project plan, and deciding on SOC tier models. There is also a list of tough questions you need to consider when proposing a SOC, as well as a discussion of layered operating models. * It then goes through numerous data sources that feed a SOC and SIEM and provides specific guidance on how to use those data sources. Most of the examples presented were implemented in one organization or another. These uses cases explain how to use a SIEM and how to use the data coming into the platform, a question that is poorly answered by many vendors.* An inventory of Security Operations Center (SOC) Services.* Several business concepts are also introduced, because they are often overlooked by IT: value chain, PESTL, and SWOT. * Metrics.* SOC staff onboarding, training topics, and desirable skills. Along these lines, there is a chapter on a day in the life of a SOC analyst. * Maturity analysis for the SOC and the log management program. * Applying a Threat Hunt mindset to the SOC. * A full use case template that was used within two major Fortune 500 companies, and is in active use by one major SIEM vendor, along with a complete example of how to build a SOC and SIEM focused use case. You can see the corresponding discussion on YouTube - search for the 2017 Security Onion conference. * Critical topics in deploying SIEM based on experience deploying five different technical platforms for nineteen different organizations in education, nonprofit, and commercial enterprises from 160 to 30,000 personnel. * Understanding why SIEM deployments fail with actionable compensators. * Real life experiences getting data into SIEM platforms and the considerations for the many different ways to provide data. * Issues relating to time, time management, and time zones. * Critical factors in log management, network security monitoring, continuous monitoring, and security architecture related directly to SOC and SIEM.* A table of useful TCP and UDP port numbers.This is the second book in the Blue Team Handbook Series. Volume One, focused on incident response, has over 32,000 copies in print and has a 4.5/5.0 review rating!