A Small Business Guide to the Security Operations Center

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As the volume and value of your data increase, you may require a stand-alone security operations center (SOC) to protect it. The Ascent outlines some SOC benefits and the steps to set up your own.

Business security used to be simple: Lock up everything valuable at the end of the day. Now it’s a 24/7 proposition because every enterprise network and its applications, hardware, and endpoints are vulnerable to security intrusions.

In smaller companies, the information technology (IT) department oversees network security. As your business grows, though, your data security needs may increase until you require a dedicated security operations center (SOC).

We’ll go over SOC basics, benefits, and the steps to setting one up so you can decide if a SOC solution is right for your business.

Overview: What is a security operations center (SOC)?

The SOC is a specialized IT department that monitors, detects, investigates, and responds to multiple types of cyber threats to protect enterprise networks, hardware,…

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