Security monitoring is an integral process in cybersecurity. Security monitoring provides any organization with the ability to detect and analyze events from the enterprise network, applications, endpoints, and user activities. Typically, security operations and continuous monitoring (SOC) has three elements: people, process, and technology.
Technology helps drive the monitoring of assets, such as networks, applications, endpoints, servers, web applications, and generates alerts by automatic correlation and analysis:
The people component in SOC focuses on validating these alerts manually and categorizing them.
The process component is all about analyzing the alerts/logs and either identifies a threat and provides detailed information to the remediation team or marks it as false positive:
SOC also has...