Trustwave SpiderLabs Uncovers Critical Cybersecurity Vulnerabilities Exposing Manufacturers to Costly Attacks. Learn More

Trustwave SpiderLabs Uncovers Critical Cybersecurity Vulnerabilities Exposing Manufacturers to Costly Attacks. Learn More

Services
Capture
Managed Detection & Response

Eradicate cyberthreats with world-class intel and expertise

twi-cloud-lock-color-svg
Managed Security Services

Expand your team’s capabilities and strengthen your security posture

twi-briefcase-color-svg
Consulting & Professional Services

Tap into our global team of tenured cybersecurity specialists

twi-dashboard-color-svg
Penetration Testing

Subscription- or project-based testing, delivered by global experts

twi-database-color-svg
Database Security

Get ahead of database risk, protect data and exceed compliance requirements

twi-email-color-svg
Email Security & Management

Catch email threats others miss with layered security & maximum control

twi-managed-portal-color
Co-Managed SOC (SIEM)

Eliminate alert fatigue, focus your SecOps team, stop threats fast, and reduce cyber risk

Solutions
BY TOPIC
Microsoft Exchange Server Attacks
Stay protected against emerging threats
Rapidly Secure New Environments
Security for rapid response situations
Securing the Cloud
Safely navigate and stay protected
Securing the IoT Landscape
Test, monitor and secure network objects
Why Trustwave
The Trustwave Approach
Awards and Accolades
Trustwave SpiderLabs Team
Trustwave Fusion Platform
SpiderLabs Fusion Center
Security Operations Centers
Partners
Technology Alliance Partners
Key alliances who align and support our ecosystem of security offerings
Trustwave PartnerOne Program
Join forces with Trustwave to protect against the most advance cybersecurity threats

Embarking on a Hybrid SOC Journey

The idea of a hybrid security operations center (SOC) is a combination of operating models. On one side is the historical managed security services provider (MSSP), which largely provides a solution that allows you to the MSSP your data for them to monitor it according to their operational processes and procedures. At that point, they alert you only when there’s something to worry about. It’s a very much outsourced approach that offers less flexibility and visibility, but a great model for companies that don’t have a low-risk tolerance or have high demands surrounding the sophistication of security technology.

On the other end of the spectrum, large organizations—or those that have a very low appetite for risk—build their own SOCs which require huge investments in buying their own technology and staffing their own teams to conduct actions such as monitoring activity and analyzing cyber threat intelligence.

These organizations face a tremendous amount of pressure given the investments they’ve made, so many have opted to take a hybrid SOC approach—which is a mix of these two models.

In this case, the organization may have already made some investments into their security operations capabilities, be it a SIEM they’ve purchased and a small team they’ve built. However, they still need help, says Jesse Emerson, Vice President, Americas, Managed Security Services at Trustwave. This is where supplemental assistance from an MSSP comes in.

“It ends up being more flexible than the traditional MSSP model because you can customize it more because it’s the organization’s technology and a lot of their processes and procedures are being used, but you can leverage the scale of the partner at the MSSP,” Emerson says.

In the full video interview below, Emerson discusses the capabilities that would make a hybrid SOC partner most successful and key items organizations should focus on if they’re thinking of embarking on a hybrid SOC journey.

Learn how Trustwave's managed security services can provide your organizations with the scale it needs to reach an ideal state of cybersecurity.

 

 

Marcos Colón is the content marketing manager at Trustwave and a former IT security reporter and editor.

Latest Trustwave Blogs

Unlock the Power of Your SIEM with Co-Managed SOC

Security information and event management (SIEM) systems play a pivotal role in cybersecurity: they offer a unified solution for gathering and assessing alerts from a plethora of security tools,...

Read More

Trustwave SpiderLabs: LockBit 3.0 Ransomware Most Common Malware Used to Attack the Manufacturing Sector

As the manufacturing sector continues its digital transformation, Operational Technology (OT), Industrial Control Systems (ICS), and Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) are becoming...

Read More

Trustwave’s Observations on the Recent Cyberattack on Aliquippa Water Treatment Plant

The attack last week on the Municipal Water Authority in Aliquippa, Penn., that gave threat actors access to a portion of the facility’s pumping equipment has spurred the Cybersecurity &...

Read More