Posts tagged Security Operations (SOC)

5 min Security Operations (SOC)

How to Develop a Common Language for Security Buy-In Across Your Business

In this blog, we break-down what keeps organizations from advancing their security programs, and how businesses can establish security priorities.

4 min Managed Detection and Response (MDR)

A Day in the Life of a Rapid7 SOC Analyst

Today, we are diving into a day in the life of a Rapid7 security operations center (SOC) analyst, specifically around threat detection and response.

3 min Security Operations

Rapid7 Leads All 'Strong Performers' in 2018 Forrester Wave for Emerging MSSPs

We’re proud to be recognized in the Forrester Wave as the leader in the “Strong Performer” category and to score second highest overall current offering for our Managed Security Services.

4 min InsightIDR

How to Set Up Your Security Operations Center (SOC) for Success

Whether you’re looking to add coverage or are experiencing challenges with your existing security operations center (SOC), it's important to consider these factors before making a decision.

4 min Komand

The Real Cost of Manual Security Operations

More tools, processes, or people doesn’t always equal better security. In fact, the more you have to manage, the costlier it can get. But as threats evolve, technologies and processes change, and so too must security operations. If your security operations are highly manual today, this post will help you visualize what that is costing your organization, not just from a monetary standpoint, but from an efficiency and speed perspective, too. We’ll start by looking at the three major areas of secu

3 min Automation and Orchestration

3 Steps to Transform Your Security Operations with Security Orchestration

Considering the sheer number of security tools and threats out there today, security operations [https://www.rapid7.com/solutions/secops/] can quickly get overwhelming if you don’t have a way to manage the complexities in a systematic fashion. Much of this management between tools and processes is done manually by people today, but this way isn’t exactly sustainable in the long term for security teams — especially coupled with an increasing volume of alerts, events, and security incidents. Tha

6 min Komand

SOC Series: How to Make a Security Operations Center More Efficient

You have your security operations center (SOC) [https://www.rapid7.com/fundamentals/security-operations-center/] in place, now what? Creating a SOC is not a cheap undertaking, so to be sure your investment in people and resources pays off, your next task is to make it as efficient as possible. Efficiency drives time-to-response, and with intrusion detection and incident response, optimizing for this metric is crucial. Over the long term, it also becomes more cost-effective. I’ve seen the good

3 min Komand

SOC Series: How to Structure and Build a Security Operations Center

Building an effective security operations center (SOC) [https://www.rapid7.com/fundamentals/security-operations-center/] requires organizing internal resources in a way that improves communication and increases efficiencies. Adding to a former post,When to Set Up a Security Operations Center [https://www.rapid7.com/blog/post/2016/06/01/to-soc-or-not-to-soc-when-to-set-up-a-security-operations-center/] , we're now offering a framework for organizing the three key functions of a SOC: people, proce

3 min Komand

SOC Series: When to Setup a Security Operations Center

To build a successful security function, you need to coordinate across people, processes, and technology. And the stakes have never been higher than they are today when it comes to information security, which is why many businesses are looking for ways to centralize security operations by way of a security operations center (SOC) [https://www.rapid7.com/fundamentals/security-operations-center/] Check out our Ebook, Presenting Upward: How to Showcase SecOps Metrics that Matter [https://www.rapid

4 min Komand

What Security Operations Teams Can Learn From Modern Productivity Software

Between your devices, how many apps do you have?The answer for many is dozens, if not hundreds. And many are designed to help us be more efficient: to keep track of growing to do lists, manage complex work tasks, or streamline communication with teams. The trouble is, many of these apps don’t talk to each other very neatly, efficiently, or at all. So it’s no wonder that when the app orchestration solution IFTTT was launched, over one million tasks [http://blog.ifttt.com/post/22129854971/one-mil