If you approach security by trying to prevent cyberattacks, hacking, and ransomware rather than preparing to deal with them, you need a mindset shift. Your clients will be cybercrime targets at some point, and trends indicate the security landscape is becoming more treacherous. Security Intelligence reports that data breaches caused by ransomware increased by 41 percent from 2021 to 2022, and 40 percent of cyberthreats are now occurring through the software supply chain. A Security Operations Center (SOC) can help keep businesses, their networks, and their data safe.
What is a Security Operations Center?
A security operations center (SOC) is a facility that aggregates all security information so that security analysts, engineers, managers and incident response teams have the insights they need to protect a business. A SOC relies on policies, technology solutions, and security intelligence from third-party sources to detect malicious activity on endpoints, servers, applications, networks and other systems and respond to cyberattacks.
A SOC staffed by a business’s employees isn’t always possible. A large enterprise may have the capital and resources to build the infrastructure necessary to run a SOC – and attract and retain talent to manage it during an IT security skills shortage. However, small to midsize businesses (SMBs), such as restaurant chains, accounting offices, grocery stores, doctor’s offices, and small manufacturers, often can’t establish their own SOCs. Additionally, SMBs are more often cyberattack targets than larger companies due to their lack of security resources.
The Solution: Offer SOC as a Service
You can give your clients the benefits of a security operations center without investing in technology and in-house security professionals. By providing a SOC as a managed service, you can help protect your clients’ businesses with continuous monitoring and analysis that identifies suspicious behavior, detects actual threats, and, when necessary, initiates incident response based on data. A SOC as a Service solution from your security vendor can also give your clients the advantage of the latest threat intelligence to help them identify and protect themselves from emerging malware and attack vectors.
Furthermore, a SOC as a Service solution from a trusted security vendor also eliminates the need for you to staff your own SOC with security pros, build a network of global analysts who can keep you informed of new threats, and continually upgrade your technology to monitor and manage your clients’ IT security. You can provide this vital service to your customers of all sizes to help them quickly identify and respond to cyberattacks, mitigate data loss and the costs of a data breach, and protect their businesses from fines, penalties, and loss of customer confidence.
Keep Your Clients’ Best Interest in Mind
Managed services providers (MSPs) who provide SOC as a Service should, just as with all other solutions, tailor their offerings to their clients’ needs. For example, price is a factor –it’s hard to explain to customers who pay you several thousand dollars monthly for managed IT that it will cost more to secure it. Still, when you talk through the costs of a cybersecurity event, including downtime and lost business, even SOC as a Service offering at the top of the scale can make financial sense.
Select the right SOC as a service offering for your market, tailor it to each client’s operations, and add visibility and agile responsiveness to security incidents and the capabilities you provide to your clients.
Your smaller clients can have the same level of cybersecurity that larger businesses and enterprises can afford. Build a Security Operations Center as a Service offering to help them mitigate risks.
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