Crisis in the SOC as skills shortage bites deep, says report

guest · Jan 31, 2019

Crisis in the SOC as skills shortage bites deep, says report
January 31, 2019
https://www.scmagazineuk.com/crisis-soc-skills-shortage-bites-deep-says-report/article/1524409

The Agari 'Email Fraud & ID Deception insights Trends' report published today should serve as a wake-up call to organisations across the country that the SOC is cracking up under the strain of a severe skilled staff shortage.

According to the Agari research, based upon the number of phishing incidents reported and the time it takes to investigate just this threat sector, the average SOC needs a total of 54 skilled analysts to perform optimally.
The phishing threat isn't the only thing that's sucking up the time of SOC analysts, but it has become a pretty important resource drain when those resources are being stretched so thinly.

"However, the increase in these reports is flooding SOCs with a raft of false positives, which current resources just can’t deal with."
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Report: Q1 2019 - Email Fraud & Identity Deception Trends (PDF): https://www.agari.com/email-fraud/ebooks/q1-2019-report.pdf

Minimalist · Jul 30, 2019

How effective is your security operations center?

While the SOC is considered an essential or important component of business, most security professionals rate their SOC’s effectiveness as low, and 49 percent say it is not fully aligned with business needs, according to a survey conducted by Devo Technology in partnership with the Ponemon Institute.
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https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2019/07/30/soc-effectiveness/

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