If you don’t have a dedicated security operations center and staff, you’ll be scrambling to shore up your defenses, even as the bad guys are invading your system. A SOC can be as simple as a set of offices or cubicles next to each other, or as sophisticated as a standalone complex with extra-large displays, two-factor physical security and a budget to match.
In a recent survey of Secure Enterprise readers, 72 percent of respondents with fewer than 5,000 employees had no plans to build a SOC. Among the 28 percent who have a SOC or plan to build one, 53 percent will collocate in the network operations center, which makes sense because an existing NOC provides the framework to build in the additional functionality required for a SOC.