Designing and Building Security Operations Center
- 1st Edition - November 6, 2014
- Imprint: Syngress
- Author: David Nathans
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 0 0 8 9 9 - 7
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 0 1 0 9 6 - 9
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Request a sales quoteDo you know what weapons are used to protect against cyber warfare and what tools to use to minimize their impact? How can you gather intelligence that will allow you to configure your system to ward off attacks? Online security and privacy issues are becoming more and more significant every day, with many instances of companies and governments mishandling (or deliberately misusing) personal and financial data.
Organizations need to be committed to defending their own assets and their customers’ information. Designing and Building a Security Operations Center will show you how to develop the organization, infrastructure, and capabilities to protect your company and your customers effectively, efficiently, and discreetly.
Written by a subject expert who has consulted on SOC implementation in both the public and private sector, Designing and Building a Security Operations Center is the go-to blueprint for cyber-defense.
- Explains how to develop and build a Security Operations Center
- Shows how to gather invaluable intelligence to protect your organization
- Helps you evaluate the pros and cons behind each decision during the SOC-building process
Security managers, analysts, engineers; Chief Security Officers, Chief Information Officers, risk officers, IT professionals
Chapter 1: Efficient operations
- Abstract
- Defining an operations center
- Purpose of the operations center
- Emergency operations center
- Mission operations center
- Threat operations center
- Network operations center
- Let us build a SOC!
- Technology phase
- Organizational phase
- Policy phase
- Operational phase
- Intelligence phase
- Plan your SOC
- Logs
- Event
- Alerts
- False positive
- True positive
- False negative
- True negative
- Incidents
- Problems
- Define your requirements
- Summary
Chapter 2: Identify your customers
- Abstract
- Internal versus external customers
- Human resources
- Legal
- Audit
- Engineering/R&D
- IT
- External customers
- Customer objectives
- Service level agreements
- Build and document your use cases
- Use case: unauthorized modification of user accounts
- Stakeholders: compliance and audit departments
- Use case: disabled user account reactivated
- Stakeholders: HR and IT
- Use case: any IDS event that scores over a severity of 7
- Use case: AV failure
- Stakeholders: desktop support team, IT server management teams
- Use case: security device outage
- Stakeholders: security and IT
- Use case rule summary
- Use case: top vulnerabilities detected in the network
- Stakeholders: security, IT, audit, and management
- Use case reporting summary
- Expectations
Chapter 3: Infrastructure
- Abstract
- Organizational infrastructure > operations infrastructure > support infrastructure
- Organizational security infrastructure
- Perimeter defenses
- Network defense
- Host defenses
- Application defenses
- Data defense
- Policies and procedures
- Security architecture
- SIEM/log management
- Operation center infrastructure
- Building the ticket system
- Subject
- Parsed values from events
- Time ticket created
- User\group\queue
- Source (SIEM, email, phone)
- Category
- Status
- Reason codes
- Acknowledgment/ticket feedback
- Workflow and automation
- Portal interface
- Mobile devices
- Support infrastructure
- Physical
- Private SOC network
- Video walls
- Video projectors
- Labs
Chapter 4: Organizational structure
- Abstract
- Different reporting lines
- Legal
- CISO
- CIO
- Compliance
- SOC organization
- Engineering
- Security architecture
- Security monitoring and analysis
- Responsibility
- Authority
- Fulfilling needs
Chapter 5: Your most valuable resource is your people
- Abstract
- Operational security
- Culture
- Personality
- Core skill sets
- Analysts
- Security analyst—job description
- Security engineering
- Security operations engineer—job description
- Security architect
- Security architect—job description
- SOC team lead
- SOC team lead—job description
- SOC management
- SOC manager—job description
- SOC games
- Special projects
- Do not forget your people
Chapter 6: Daily operations
- Abstract
- Problem and change event communications
- Shift turn overs
- Daily operations calls
- Critical bridges
- IR
- Detection
- Confirmation
- Analysis
- Containment
- Recovery
- Review
- Communication plan
- Regular workshops
- Checklists
- Shift schedules
- Types of shift schedules
- Other shift options
- Follow the sun
- Shift rotation
- Dealing with absenteeism
Chapter 7: Training
- Abstract
- Internal functional training
- Internal skill set training
- Summary
Chapter 8: Metrics
- Abstract
- Heads up display
- Supervisor metrics
- Vulnerabilities
- Vulnerability prioritizing
- Base CVSS2 threshold
- Temporal CVSS2 threshold
- Asset prioritizing as a part of metrics
- Historical monitoring of patches
Chapter 9: Intelligence
- Abstract
- Know thyself
- Known IP space, know thy enemy
- Blacklists
- Black listing projects
- Other types of lists
- Organizations and industry partners
- Proactive activity monitoring
Chapter 10: Outsourcing
- Abstract
- Types of MSSPs
- Advantages of MSSP outsourcing
- Disadvantages to MSSP outsourcing
- How the services will be delivered
- Summary
Chapter 11: Do not forget why you are here
- Abstract
- Edition: 1
- Published: November 6, 2014
- No. of pages (Paperback): 276
- No. of pages (eBook): 276
- Imprint: Syngress
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128008997
- eBook ISBN: 9780128010969
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David Nathans
David Nathans is a highly-sought-after consultant on building enterprise security programs, Security Operation Centers and as a speaker on cyber security for conferences, interest groups, and corporate events. As a former CISO for a large US and Italian defense contractor as well as the former Global Security Operations Center manager for one of the largest Managed Security Services Providers in the world, he has a wealth of security operations knowledge he now shares. The experiences and lessons learned also stem from his time building security programs at one of the largest breached retail companies in history as well as working all over the world as a cyber-operations officer for the U.S. Air Force. He has also written and continues to write articles for SC Magazine
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