Security Operations Center (SOC) SIG
Mission
Security operations centers encounter a variety of challenges, yet there is not a framework or guideline that focuses on the challenges unique to SOCs. SOC challenges can stem from disparities between people’s skills and knowledge, inadequately developed processes, and misunderstood or lack of technology resources. SOC teams are inundated with data which can make it difficult to discover or decide on adequate toolsets to help reduce the over consumption of data and extract greater value from the tools in place. Left unaddressed, these challenges can lead to the SOC team being slower to detect and respond to potential incidents, getting distracted with false positive or negative alerts, and being subject to analyst over exposure and alert fatigue.
In the FIRST community, there is a heavy focus on CSIRT/PSIRT frameworks and issues that include some mention of SOC-related concerns. While there is no one, right way to configure the delineation between SOC and CSIRT services, it would help to have SOC-specific collateral and or models for addressing the challenges SOC teams face.
The mission of the Security Operations Center SIG is to help synthesize existing materials and create new collateral for an easier to access focus area within FIRST for SOC-specific challenges and recommendations.
Goals & Deliverables
Goals:
- Identify members within the FIRST community willing to contribute to this SIG.
- Gather and evaluate existing SOC-specific materials from prior FIRST conferences related specifically to SOC development, challenges, and models that would be useful to include in collateral material produced by this SIG.
- Agree upon type and scale of collateral materials that the SIG should focus on and assign lead developers and sub-team members for each type to support the agreed upon deliverables.
Deliverables:
- Creation of a Common SOC Challenges collateral to help teams recognize their potential issues in a currently operating SOC or to help in the planning phases of SOC team creation.
- Creation of overview collateral focused on SOCs and CSIRTs models and how these functions work collectively and where it is common to see distinctions in services offered.
- Creation of a SOC Framework or Ontology that compliments the existing CSIRT/PSIRT Services Frameworks. For the first year’s effort, the goals would be to draft this documentation for wider review within the FIRST community.
Chair
Meetings
- At the Annual Conference (in person)
- Monthly (virtually)
Mailing list
Any FIRST member may join, others are welcome as well, requests must be approved by the SIG chairs.
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