awesome-soc — Updated!

Awesome SOC An operational handbook and knowledge base to build, run and mature a SOC including CSIRT. Covering: SOC basics detection engineering threat intelligence SOC metrics/KPI SOC automation AI use cases and best practices SOP SOC playbooks Those are my view, based on my own experience as...

Why MTTR is Bad for SecOps

Mean time to resolution MTTR is a commonly used metric in the security industry. While it has utility to a business’s risk function, it does not belong in security operations SecOps. First, let us level-set on what reporting is versus metrics. Reporting measures activity and does not drive specif...

Forrester Consulting TEI Study: Azure Security Center delivers 219 percent ROI over 3 years and a payback of less than 6 months

Azure Security Center is a critical tool to secure our multi-cloud workloads in the new world of remote work we find ourselves in today. We are excited to share that Forrester Consulting has just conducted a commissioned Total Economic Impact TEI study on behalf of Microsoft, which involved...

Talkin’ SMAC: Alert Labeling and Why It Matters

If you’ve ever worked in a Security Operations Center SOC, you know that it’s a special place. Among other things, the SOC is a massive data-labeling machine, and generates some of the most valuable data in the cybersecurity industry. Unfortunately, much of this valuable data is often rendered...