Best Practices for Building a Security Operations Center

Abstract If one cannot effectively manage the growing volume of security events flooding the enterprise, one cannot secure one's business. Yet IT security teams are now being overwhelmed by literally millions of security-related messages every day. This daily deluge of security data is being generated by the numerous “point” security solutions deployed across the enterprise: firewalls, intrusion prevention and detection, access control, identity management, anti-virus, etc. These solutions all generate information in different formats, store it in different places, and forward to different locations. And it is more than anyone can handle.