How an always-on security mentality can help SOC it to the cybercriminals

We know that cyber-attacks are increasing both in scale and frequency because we read reports of new breaches every day. Indeed, the headlines and statistics can be quite overwhelming, which is why businesses with limited time and resources end up placing all their trust in a standard firewall and antivirus solution, whilst trying not to think too hard about the chances of being compromised.

But it’s not just the volume of attacks that’s on the rise – they are developing in complexity too. At Fusion, we have seen several companies devastated by such attacks, including one that lost several hundred thousand pounds. We onboarded this new client immediately after a breach that had been caused by undetected malware on a user PC. This had installed a key logger and remote access software, which allowed the threat actors to monitor the machine and learn the credentials for crucial business applications and their BACS software. The hackers then edited the bank details of the company’s main suppliers within the BACS software, so when the company’s suppliers made their usual end-of-month payments, the funds were directed to alternative bank accounts.

What is a Security Operations Centre (SOC)?

Today, an effective defence against these evolving threats requires an ‘always-on’ security mentality. But for SME’s, this shift to a more proactive approach can be difficult. So, it’s little surprise that a growing number of business owners are turning to managed security operations centres for cost-effective security skill sets and services.

Even companies with internal IT support staff struggle to muster adequate defences due to a lack of specific cyber expertise and a need to respond to the other IT requirements of the day. Furthermore, the automated security products they oversee, may be generating hundreds of alerts every week to the point that this high volume of notifications soon becomes white noise, and a few critical alerts start to fall through the cracks.

A managed security operations centre (SOC) is typically an external team of cyber specialists who are trained and certified in cybersecurity best practices and techniques. They understand the different types of cybersecurity attacks, compliance requirements, threat trends, and target vulnerabilities, so can provide constant monitoring and remediation of malicious activity whilst you get on with running your business.

Specialist cybersecurity protection from Fusion

Fusion has now partnered with one such SOC that was recently ranked top of a Gartner performance survey. Working as an extension of our own support team, this service allows us to put you in touch with specialist cybersecurity protection, which includes unlimited support for a fixed cost, so your bill will not increase even if the number of potential threats does.

Reasons to use a SOC include:

• Provides high efficacy, actionable threat detection
• Rapidly uncovers and contains advanced threats to reduce incident dwell time and time to resolution
• Provides a complete understanding of the root cause to close existing gaps
• This single cloud-delivered platform has true multitenant capabilities and can be scaled to meet the needs of global enterprises
• Best-in-industry coverage across Linux, MacOS, Windows + Affordable EDR data retention of 365 days+ for full historical analysis
• Enables the detection of high-velocity threats
• Provides EDR data retention of 365 days and beyond, for full historical analysis of any attack.

Find out more – discuss SOC options with our experts

To learn more about the additional protection offered by a security operation centre, call 01245 455510 or email us via our Contact page. Our friendly team of experts look forward to speaking with you very soon.