Exploring modern ways to resolve traditional SOC issues
Keeping in mind the security shift that is required to be successful in a modern world, one of the first things enterprises must do from a security perspective to resolve traditional SOC issues is to review tooling and coverage. As we covered in the previous section, tooling has such a drastic impact on the SOC.
The overarching solution to common and traditional SOC issues is to begin integrating enterprise internal security systems into automation, coordination, and other threat intelligence backends. This type of data and integration will allow enterprises to have insight into threats that far surpass what is merely in their environments. Whenever you bring in these vast external data sources (primarily through native tooling, such as your EDR or SIEM solution), security teams in enterprises gain way more context into the actual threat that exists in their enterprise and what each alert means, but most importantly, how to...