SECURITY OPERATIONS CENTER
The SOC (Security Operations Center) team is responsible for protecting an organization’s digital assets by actively monitoring, detecting, analyzing, and responding to cybersecurity threats and incidents.
key responsibilities and tasks performed by a SOC team
Monitoring
Detection and Analysis
Incident Response
Threat Hunting
The SIEM tools are designed to centralize and analyze logs and security events from various devices and applications across an organization’s IT infrastructure.
Here are some common types of device logs that can be integrated into SIEM tools
Network Device: Firewalls, Switchs, Routers, IDS/IPS.
Endpoints : Servers, Workstations, Laptops & Mobile devices.
Security Appliances : VPN Gateway, Web Proxies, Email Gateway
Cloud Service
Application Servers, Database Servers.
After Identifying the log source devices, the below steps are followed to integrate these logs into SIEM tool.
- Configure Log Collection
- Select Log Collection Method
- Configure Log Forwarding and Aggregation
- Normalize and Enrich Log Data
- Perform Log Analysis and Threat Detection
- Generate Alerts and Incidents
- Investigate and Respond to Security Incidents
- Monitor and Maintain Integration