Security Operations Center Guidebook

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

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

The Chief Security Officer’s Handbook: Leading Your Team into the Future offers practical advice on how to embrace the future, align with your organizations mission, and develop a program that meets the needs of the enterprise. The book discusses real-life examples of what to do to align with other critical departments, how to avoid spending time and resources on unnecessary and outdated methods, and tomorrow’s security program. Today’s security executives need to help their industry, their organization and the next generation of security leaders to pioneer, optimize and transform every aspect of our programs, technologies and methods. The book is ideal for current chief security officers, aspiring security executives, and those interested in better understanding the critical need to modernize corporate security. Offers suggestions on the do's and don’ts of professional development Provides tangible examples on how the CSO works collaboratively with internal peers Instructs CSO's on how to align with the business while remaining agile Illustrates the various paths to becoming a CSO Demonstrates ways to move your program into one that embraces enterprise security risk management, convergence and automation

"Security Operations: An Introduction to Planning and Conducting Private Security Details for High-Risk Areas, Second Edition was written for one primary purpose: to keep people alive by introducing them to private security detail tactics and techniques. The book provides an understanding the basic concepts and rules that need to be followed in protective services, including what comprises good security practice. This Second Edition is fully updated to include new case scenarios, threat vectors, and new ambush ploys and attack tactics used by opportunistic predators and seasoned threat actors with ever-advanced, sophisticated schemes. Security has always been a necessity for conducting business operations in both low- and high-risk, regardless of the threat level in the operating environment. Overseas, those with new ideas or businesses, can frequently be targets for both political and criminal threat agents intent on doing harm. Even in the United States, people become targets because of positions held, publicity, politics, economics, or other issues that create unwanted attention to a person, their family, or business operations. Security Operations, Second Edition provides an introduction of what duties a security detail should perform and how to effectively carry out those duties. The book can be used by a person traveling with a single bodyguard or someone being moved by a full security detail. Features include: Identifies what can pose a threat, how to recognize threats, and where threats are most likely to be encountered Presents individuals and companies with the security and preparedness tools to protect themselves when operating in various environments, especially high-risk regions Provides an understanding of operational security when in transit, to vary route selection, and keep destinations and movement plans out of the public view Outlines the tools and techniques needed for people to become security conscious, and situationally aware, for their own safety and the safety of those close to them An equal help to those just entering the protection business or people and companies that are considering hiring a security detail, Security Operations is a thorough, detailed and responsible approach to this serious and often high-risk field"--

Drawing upon a wealth of experience from academia, industry, and government service, Cyber Security Policy Guidebook details and dissects, in simple language, current organizational cyber security policy issues on a global scale—taking great care to educate readers on the history and current approaches to the security of cyberspace. It includes thorough descriptions—as well as the pros and cons—of a plethora of issues, and documents policy alternatives for the sake of clarity with respect to policy alone. The Guidebook also delves into organizational implementation issues, and equips readers with descriptions of the positive and negative impact of specific policy choices. Inside are detailed chapters that: Explain what is meant by cyber security and cyber security policy Discuss the process by which cyber security policy goals are set Educate the reader on decision-making processes related to cyber security Describe a new framework and taxonomy for explaining cyber security policy issues Show how the U.S. government is dealing with cyber security policy issues With a glossary that puts cyber security language in layman's terms—and diagrams that help explain complex topics—Cyber Security Policy Guidebook gives students, scholars, and technical decision-makers the necessary knowledge to make informed decisions on cyber security policy.

Industrial Security Operations Book one is the first in a series of books on the subject. This book contains the necessary information to assist Security Officers in carrying out their duties in a professional manner and based on the accepted standards of performance. This publication is based on information from accredited sourced and laid down standards.

In the operations of the current security industry, attempts to maximize profits have replaced ethical priorities. Instead of seeking security personnel who exemplify high standards of performance, the industry leadership has sought the lowest standard of performance in order to undercut competitors with similarly low standards, creating a downward race toward a supposedly acceptable minimum. In the author's experience, the downward race has fallen significantly below an acceptable level, and the result is a web of unethical behavior from industry leadership which seeks to conceal performance failures. In typical security operations, the requirement for a high quality written report in the aftermath of an emergency is presented to personnel which have received little or no training in writing reports. Current industry leadership does not hold personnel accountable to write high quality reports, and allows persons to continue in positions of responsibility even after proven inability to meet acceptable levels of performance in report writing. In a security operation which is lead in an ethical manner, the performance standard for written reports in emergency events will be built on a foundation of proven competence in writing routine reports. The acceptable standard for reports is clarity, accuracy, and completeness. When any type of emergency event occurs, and a high quality report is required, writing the report should be something the person has done before and does regularly. To remove this foundation, and to lower the expectations for routine reports, it to prepare personnel for failure. It is the mission of Sixth Training Group to present an ethical alternative to the failures of the current security industry. To that end, the author has prepared a handbook of example entries which may illustrate best practices for written reporting across a wide range of routine and emergency events. The handbook is designed for use with printed copies of the Sixth Training Group Security Operations Desk Blotter, however, it may prove to be useful when used with any type of written report, shift log, or daily log. During training, the handbook may serve as an aid for new personnel when writing reports following simulations and field exercises. It may also serve as a benchmark for instructors to evaluate performance in report writing. During actual security operations, the handbook may serve as a helpful guide to ensure that essential information is gathered and presented in an organized manner.

Security is the state of being free from danger or threat and includes concepts of safety, reliability, dependability and soundness for an assured future. The purpose of this book is to present information relative to security operations. In modern society private security operations are a key aspect of the public safety system, with officers performing crucial roles for the protection of people and property in conjunction with law enforcement, emergency and support services. There are numerous opportunities in the private sector but regardless of the role, personnel who undertake this vital task have a responsibility to operate with integrity in a competent and professional manner.