The purpose of a Security Operations Center (SOC) is to identify, investigate, prioritize and resolve issues that could affect the security of a company’s information assets. A well—developed and run SOC can put information at the fingertips of an organization and help identify when an attack starts, who is attacking, how the attack is being conducted, and what data or systems are being compromised. We deliver the power of a Security Operations Center with tools and essential capabilities that allow you to identify which assets you need to protect, pinpoint assets vulnerable to attack, understand techniques used to attack your assets, recognize when a breach has occurred, determine what actions will have the most impact on your security posture, and identify assets you need to protect. Having a deep understanding of all the assets on your network is critical to your ability to respond to and contain the most serious threats. Asset identification also enables you to prioritize and mitigate threats to critical systems, which is an essential component of an effective security operations center.

To perform asset discovery, our SOC comes with three automated approaches. Passive network monitoring—passively monitors the network traffic, hosts and installed software to identify the protocols and ports used in the captured traffic.Active network scanning—probes the network to elicit device responses for identification of machines and software installed.Host—based software inventory—a host—based agent that provides deep endpoint visibility that can enumerate all software installed on the machine, not just the software that’s using the network. Pinpoint assets vulnerable to attack. Being able to pinpoint weaknesses in your IT environment will give you a better understanding of how your organization may be exploited during a breach. A security operations center needs to run vulnerability assessment on a regular and on—going basis to ensure new vulnerabilities are discovered and responded to in a timely manner. Despite the best efforts of companies, not all breaches are avoidable. However, in order to minimize the impact of a breach, you need to be able to recognize when one might have occurred on your network and know what to do next to minimize impact. In a well run security operations center, having the tools and process in place to monitor and set baselines for system behavior allows you to quickly detect and respond to breaches.

Automated Vulnerability Assessment

IAM Networks provides built—in network vulnerability assessment software with the essential capabilities you need for complete security visibility and threat intelligence, all in one easy—to—use console. With a network vulnerability assessment, you can find the weak spots in your critical assets and take corrective action before attackers exploit them to sabotage or steal your data. Active network scanning—actively probes the network to elicit responses from hosts. This allows the analysis engine to determine the configuration of the remote system and cross—reference with a database of known vulnerabilities. Host—based assessment—using access to the file system of a host, our analysis engine can perform a more accurate detection of vulnerabilities by inspecting the installed software and comparing with a list of known vulnerable software packages. Understand techniques used to attack your assets—intrusion detection lies on the opposite end of the spectrum from vulnerability assessment. Whereas vulnerability assessment will help you discover vulnerabilities in your systems, intrusion detection is used to identify the attacks that are targeting those vulnerabilities.

Virtual Security Operations Center

Acting as a Virtual SOC, we enable you to inspect traffic between devices, not just at the edge. It also leverages data combined with threat intelligence from our labs to identify tools, techniques and procedures being deployed by attackers—keeping you one step ahead. Network Intrusion Detection System (NIDS)—catch threats targeting your vulnerable systems with signature—based anomaly detection and protocol analysis technologies. Host Intrusion Detection System (HIDS) and File Integrity Monitoring (FIM)—analyze system behavior and configuration status to detect potential security exposures such as system compromise, modification of critical files, rootkits and rogue processes. Threat intelligence—the IAM Networks security platform receives threat intelligence updates every 30 minutes, direct from the threat research team. We acts as an extension to your IT team. They are constantly performing advanced research on current threats to develop updates to our threat intelligence in the form of SIEM correlation rules, IDS signatures, response guidance, and more.

Features And Benefits

Active service monitoring—validates that services running on hosts are continuously available. Netflow Analysis—analyzes the protocols and bandwidth used by each device and alerts where behavior falls outside of the norm. Network Traffic Capture—captures the TCP/IP stream allowing for replay of activity to determine what happened during a breach. Host IDS—can detect new processes or abnormal resource usage on a host, which can indicate a compromise. When a variety of security technologies are deployed at scale, a security operations center can quickly become overwhelmed with a vast amount of data to analyze. This leads to questions like: What should be done first? What data needs further analysis? And where is my time best spent? Evaluating each stream of data independently can be a poor use of your time. Instead, all data streams need to be considered as a whole with each adding further context to the other. The security operations center automates and simplifies the process of collating and correlating the vast amounts of data with its Security Information and Event Management (SIEM). The SIEM normalizes and analyzes data from disparate sources and correlates it together to present a complete picture of the incidents occurring in the overall system.