It’s a SOC a responsibility to function efficiently and help the organization defend against cyber threats before they have a disruptive effect on the business. This is where functional maturity measurement plays its part.
Security Operations Centers (SOCs) are centers of expertise for numerous organizations, where information and skills related to cyber security are collected.
The SOC is where experienced professionals gather, process, and analyze log data collected throughout the company’s digital assets to identify signs of cyber risks in the infrastructure. Thus, the SOC delivers value to the company by strengthening the organization’s resistance to cyber threats and minimizing the harm caused by cyberattacks.
We will be able to determine the organization’s SOC’s strengths and limitations with the use of ThreatCure SOC maturity assessment management tool. It also enables for the assessment of SOC growth, demonstrating the return on investment in the SOC. The SOC maturity assessment will assist the client in benchmarking its maturity against CMM levels, allowing management to establish a roadmap for SOCs moving ahead and evolving to give the maximum value to the firm.
The establishment of the SOC maturity assessment model was an essential milestone in the research, but it was not the last. Threatcure services along with an assessment tool will develop and validate the results in numerous iterations to get a more specific outcome. This assessment exercise goes beyond modeling to provide a technique for identifying any SOC’s present capability maturity level.
In simple terms, it rates organizations along a 6 point scale called a Capability Maturity Model. From the SCF website, the levels of Maturity are:
⦁ CMM 0 – Not Performed
⦁ CMM 1 – Performed Informally
⦁ CMM 2 – Planned & Tracked
⦁ CMM 3 – Well-Defined
⦁ CMM 4 – Quantitatively Controlled
⦁ CMM 5 – Continuously Improving
These 6 levels are plotted against two axes: Cost & Complexity, and Maturity level (people, processes & technology).
ThreatCure experienced professionals will lead an evaluation session with several SOC specialists, ideally with diverse roles (engineers, analysts, etc.) and viewpoints. A varied array of persons attending the session is more likely to spark discourse. A discussion like this can spark new ideas and contribute value beyond measurement. To boost the evaluation’s value, someone outside the SOC team, should direct the process and challenge the input provided by participants.
When the assessment is finished, the SOC maturity assessment results section displays the final scores in a table and graph. A big radar chart displays the maturity score for each component of the SOC. As stated before in this text, capacity is solely assessed on the domains of technology and services and has a separate scale: 0 to 3, whereas maturity is scored on a scale of 0 to 5.
