Security monitoring tools generate a large volume of
alerts. Sifting through these to identify genuine threats from false positives
is highly resource-intensive and this can lead to important alerts being
ignored.
Setting up a Cyber Security Operations Centre (CSOC) to
undertake 24/7 security monitoring is often cost-prohibitive. Rather than
recruiting and training dedicated in-house experts and arming them with the
latest technologies and intelligence, many organizations are instead opting for
a specialist managed service.
Why
is security monitoring important?
As the modern workplace becomes increasingly digitized,
with BYOD and remote working on the rise, the traditional security perimeter is
becoming blurred. Cyber threats are evolving to take advantage of new
vulnerabilities that emerge daily.
With breaches now an operational reality, proactive
detection is essential. While technology alone can block many common
signature-based threats, a deeper level of cyber security monitoring is
required to identify the latest sophisticated cyber threats, including
the latest types of ransomware and memory-resident malware.
Continuous cyber security monitoring helps organizations
to:
- Improve threat visibility
- Detect a broader range of threats
- Reduce incident response times from months to minutes
- Evaluate the performance of existing security controls
- Comply with industry and regulatory requirements
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