Building an in-house Security Operations Centre (SOC) is a time consuming and costly effort. The scale of requirements by some organizations drives many large as well as small organizations to opt for effective outsourcing of their Security Operations Centre needs. While there can be large numbers of security alerts, only specialists that are also expensive to hire, can provide the right investigations especially in cases where alerts can go unseen. Also, the pace at which technology is advancing also plays a very important part in working with an outsourced SOC as they tackle the high cost, maintenance and upgrades as well as 24/7 coverage of an organizations Security assets.
