The SOC Academy

What Are SOAR Tools?  Security orchestration, automation, and response (SOAR) tools are platforms that automate the workflows involved in responding to cybersecurity threats. These tools integrate security operations functions like alert management, case management, threat and vulnerability intelligence, and incident response into a unified system. By centralizing data and workflows, SOAR platforms help security teams […]

What Is Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)?  Security information and event management (SIEM) refers to a technology platform that collects, analyzes, and correlates security data from various sources across an organization’s IT environment. SIEM tools aggregate event logs from endpoints, servers, network devices, and applications, storing them centrally for real-time monitoring and long-term analysis. […]

What Is a SOAR Playbook?  A SOAR (Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response) playbook is a set of automated, predefined steps to handle security incidents, such as threat detection, data enrichment, and response actions. These playbooks use conditional logic to guide the process, integrating various security tools to perform tasks like quarantining a compromised device or […]

What is Cyber Triage? Cyber triage is the systematic process of quickly evaluating, sorting, and prioritizing potential security incidents within an organization. It is a workflow within security operations centers (SOCs) that aims to rapidly identify credible threats from an often overwhelming volume of alerts and data generated by security tools. Cyber triage helps to […]

What is Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response?  Security orchestration, automation, and response (SOAR) is a category of technology platforms that help security operations teams manage and respond to a rapidly increasing volume of security alerts and threats. SOAR integrates disparate security tools and processes to coordinate, automate, and streamline incident response workflows. It allows organizations […]

Defining SOC and SIEM  A Security Operations Center (SOC) is a team of people who monitor, detect, and respond to threats, while a Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) is a technology solution that collects and analyzes security data to provide alerts. The SIEM is a tool that enhances the SOC’s capabilities, and the two […]

What Role Does AI Play in SOAR? Security orchestration, automation, and response (SOAR) centralizes alerts, workflows, and playbooks so analysts can handle incidents in a consistent way. Traditional SOAR tools automate repeatable steps, coordinate actions across security products, and help analysts track investigations. They reduce manual work but depend on predefined logic that requires constant […]

What Is an Outsourced SOC? An outsourced SOC, also known as SOC as a Service (SOCaaS), is when a company hires a third-party vendor to manage its security operations, providing expertise, advanced tools, and 24/7 threat monitoring to detect and respond to cyber threats. This model offers cost-effectiveness and access to specialized talent, which can […]

What Is a SOC Team? A SOC team, or Security Operations Center team, is a group of cybersecurity professionals responsible for continuously monitoring, detecting, analyzing, and responding to cybersecurity threats and incidents within an organization. The primary goal of the SOC team is to protect an organization’s IT infrastructure, data, and systems by preventing, identifying, […]