{"id":41709,"date":"2023-02-07T14:29:49","date_gmt":"2023-02-07T14:29:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.n-able.com\/?p=41709"},"modified":"2023-03-02T15:12:12","modified_gmt":"2023-03-02T15:12:12","slug":"using-soc-as-a-service-to-bridge-the-cybersecurity-talent-gap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.n-able.com\/de\/blog\/using-soc-as-a-service-to-bridge-the-cybersecurity-talent-gap","title":{"rendered":"Using SOC-as-a-Service to Bridge the Cybersecurity Talent Gap"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/i>As the cyberthreat landscape is getting more sophisticated, the need for skilled cybersecurity professionals is also rising. The recent 2022 (ISC)<\/span>2<\/sup><\/span> Cybersecurity Workforce Study<\/span><\/a> revealed that, in the past year, the cybersecurity workforce gap (the difference between the number of security professionals required and the number of suitably qualified people in the marketplace) has grown more than twice as much as the number of actual cybersecurity workforce hired, with a 26.2% year-on-year increase. Moreover, 70% of respondents considered that their organizations did not have enough cybersecurity staff, and more than 50% felt that this staff deficit was putting their organization at risk of cyberattacks. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In this context, more organizations, especially small medium businesses (SMBs), are relying on MSPs and MSSPs to manage their IT security operations. In fact, the global managed security services market<\/span><\/a> is predicted to grow to around $53.2bn by 2031\u2014up from its 2021 level of $14.6bn. As a result, service providers are looking to expand their security practices to keep pace with this growing demand. <\/span><\/p>\n

However, this growth opportunity for MSPs also comes with challenges. Managing security operations for more customers can add to the daily operational workload of IT technicians and increase the chances of alert fatigue (where technicians miss things because of the sheer number of alerts they\u2019re receiving). Alleviating this burden by hiring additional staff is also made more difficult by the security labor shortage. And even for MSPs that operate their own Security Operations Centers (SOCs), expanding their security practice can be challenging for the same reasons. <\/span><\/p>\n

So how can MSPs address these challenges? Partnering with a SOC-as-a-Service or managed SOC provider can be an ideal solution, regardless of whether the MSP already runs a SOC or not. <\/span><\/p>\n

What is SOC-as-a-Service?<\/span><\/h2>\n

A SOC, security operations center, is a team of IT security experts that monitors an organization\u2019s IT infrastructure to identify and mitigate security incidents. The SOC team is typically comprised of a SOC manager who oversees the SOC operations, security engineers who build and maintain the security architecture, security analysts who investigate and respond to threat incidents, and threat hunters who proactively search for any threats that may have evaded other defenses and contain them. <\/span><\/p>\n

A SOC\u2019s key responsibilities include managing and maintaining IT security systems and technologies (e.g., SIEM, SOAR, EDR, XDR etc.), deriving insights from threat data that helps improve the organization\u2019s security stance, coordinating the organization\u2019s security tools<\/span><\/a>, practices, and incident response processes, and ensuring compliance with data privacy regulations.<\/span><\/p>\n

SOC-as-a-Service, also known as managed SOC, is a managed security service that allows organizations to outsource threat detection and incident response to an external SOC. Through this subscription-based offering, organizations can access a team of cybersecurity experts who can act as an extension of their IT teams and take on the operational tasks of monitoring the entire infrastructure 24\/7, identifying, investigating, and responding to threat events.<\/span><\/p>\n

Why SOC-as-a-Service?<\/span><\/h2>\n

Partnering with a managed SOC services provider helps eliminate the challenge of having to hire additional security professionals. Outsourcing security operations to a managed SOC can give you instant access to the cybersecurity expertise and experience needed to efficiently operate security tools and technologies, as well as knowledgeably deal with a variety of threats; it can also help ensure the 24\/7 availability of experts to mitigate threats as soon as they\u2019re detected.<\/span><\/p>\n

This means that using SOC-as-a-Service can help you to rapidly expand your security practice. You don\u2019t need to allocate time and resources to building an internal IT security team, to layer on new tools and technologies, or to achieve compliance with the growing number of data privacy regulations. <\/span><\/p>\n

Partnering with a managed security operations center is essentially a shortcut to getting everything in place as soon as you close the deal. So, regardless of the size of your MSP\/MSSP or how advanced your security offering is\u2014some MSPs only have an endpoint detection and response (EDR) solution<\/span><\/a> in place\u2014a managed SOC can help you to easily scale your business. <\/span><\/p>\n

How partnering with a managed SOC provider can help you<\/span><\/h2>\n

Partnering with a managed SOC provider can help MSPs\/MSSPs to:<\/span><\/p>\n