Top Qualities of a Good SOC-as-a-Service Provider | SafeAeon

Remember the good old days when antivirus, firewall and a web filter were sufficient to keep the hackers away?

Unfortunately, those good old days are gone now.

As digital processes has profoundly implanted in our lifestyle, hackers have an increasing number of targets, and they also have much more to gain from their nefarious schemes.

From ransomware and the double-dealing of zero-day dangers to the seizing of web associated endpoints for refusal of-administration assaults, cybercriminals will do what they consider significant to benefit on other's torment. This is particularly unsettling for little and medium-sized organizations that have less assets to protect their data frameworks. The other options — building a security activity focus starting from the earliest stage, or sending endpoint security with an expectation and a request — aren't all that alluring.

But hope is not lost.

Another variety of MSSP has developed in the beyond couple of years, and it's called SOC as a Service. The offering on the table is an outsourced SOC as a service provider and it has great potential to improve the security posture of organizations of all sizes—if it has the right set of features.

Finding the right SOC provider or MSSP for your organization is a daunting task. Here are the qualities of a good SOC-as-a-Service provider that should be explored in order to find the good as well as perfect SOC as a Service Provider.

Why 24*7 Security Operations Center (SOC) is a Necessity?

 SafeAeon Security Operations Center aims to provide 24*7 managed security services because nowadays organizations are exposed to more security challenges than ever before, and even the largest enterprises in the world have a tough time defending themselves against the never-ending onslaught of threats that are testing their security teams on a daily basis. 

"The hard reality is that just deploying Firewalls and Malware Detection Solutions are not enough anymore."

In light of this reality, as well as increasing cyber crimes, organizations are exploring increasingly sophisticated methods to reliably defend themselves, which is why around-the-clock managed security monitoring services provided by a security operations center (SOC) has been growing in popularity and become a necessity. Continue reading in detail about the Importance of 24*7 Security Operations Center (SOC).

Choose SafeAeon Security Operations Center as your MSSP Partner!

At SafeAeon, our Expert Security Professionals focus on 24X7 security monitoring and management of your IT assets and provide remediation guidance to shield your business from all the potential cybersecurity risks and threats. 

SafeAeon Supporting Ukraine by Providing FREE SOC as a Service and MDR Services

In Russia-Ukraine War, SafeAeon wants to do what it can to help the Ukrainian businesses. We hope by making our premium GDPR compliant SOC as a Service and MDR Services FREE for six months for any business or government institution of Ukraine, we can help these businesses stay safe from relentless cyber-attacks.

Keeping Ukrainian businesses safe at moments like this is vital, and we will do all we can to help those caught up in these tragic events.

SafeAeon SOC is SOC 2 Type-II and ISO certified. In this hard time, we are openly and proudly with Ukraine. Are you?

To know more, continue reading our Ukraine Crisis Response

Stay Safe Digitally in 2022 with SafeAeon Security Operations Center

Let’s all make this new year packed full of VIRUS-free hugs and wishes. ✌️✌️

Let us all give a round of applause to the Cyber Security folks, who work 24/7 to keep the businesses safe and secure during these difficult and testing times. 🔐

Have a sparkling New Year 2022! 

Do you want to Stay Safe Digitally in 2022? 

Reach us out to schedule a FREE Demo with SafeAeon and learn how SafeAeon Inc. (a leading Security Operations Center) can safeguard your business.

Our 24*7 Managed Security Services:

✔️ SOC as a Service

✔️ Cloud Monitoring

✔️ MDR Security

✔️ Endpoint Detection and Response

✔️ Next Generation Firewall

✔️ Vulnerability Assessment

✔️ Pen Testing as a Service

✔️ Database Audit and Monitoring

✔️ DLP Security

✔️ Patch Management

✔️ Forensic Analysis

✔️ Security Incident And Crisis Support

Ready to take control of your Security?

We are here for help!

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How the COVID-19 pandemic has affected cybersecurity?

 As the Coronavirus has adversely affected health, political, economic, and social domains of the world, there is another threat that has not been so popular in the news: the risk of cyberattacks. With the increase of this pandemic, internet dependency has also increased to a great extent. People tend to make more mistakes online than they would not have made otherwise. Learn how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected cybersecurity

Zero Day Attack - What is it and How to Deal with it?

 A Zero-day attack exploits a computer-software vulnerability that is unknown to the developer but is known to the attacker. The attacker does not give the time to the developer to apply patches on the system/servers as the developer is unaware of it. It is a type of cyber attack that occurs on the same day of getting a knowledge of vulnerability that can be exploited or on which bad actors can sit on, waiting for the opportune moment to strike.

Continue reading about Zero day Attack

Cloud Monitoring Services - Types, Benefits and Tools

Is Cloud Monitoring Service a good investment?

The cloud is new normal for business today. In fact, 90 percent of businesses say they utilize cloud services, and many more plan to do so in the future. The cloud provides various advantages, such as scalability and agility. As the use of the cloud grows, so does the necessity to monitor its performance.

What is Cloud Monitoring?

Cloud monitoring is a method of managing data present in the cloud. It helps an organization to make better decisions and offers a wide perspective of all the data. The availability and performance of websites, servers, apps, and other cloud infrastructure are maintained by manual and automatic methods.

Cloud Monitoring provides a consolidated view of the performance of the data in the cloud. It helps to figure out the anomalies and errors in the data. 

Cloud Monitoring includes functions:

• Website Monitoring
• Virtual machine Monitoring
• Database Monitoring
• Virtual network monitoring
• Cloud storage monitoring

What are cloud Monitoring services?

Monitoring services offered by various cloud providers attempt to reduce the burden on internal teams to monitor and manage hosted services and applications. It provides visibility across the data and infrastructure in the cloud. The reports and charts help someone to understand the cloud infrastructure easily.

Cloud Monitoring Benefits

1. Monitoring Cloud Activity:

Cloud monitoring services make it very easy to monitor all the resources being consumed in the cloud. It will optimize the cost and performance of the resources. With complete visibility into cloud architecture, costs are reduced or maintained.

2.Cloud Security Monitoring:

It makes it easier to identify patterns and potential security flaws in cloud infrastructure. When a person keeps data on the cloud, cloud monitoring helps clients avoid losing business by ensuring that their personal information is secure.

3.Scaling:

Cloud monitoring assures us to scale up or down the infrastructure since it provides us with actual information on all resources. This also benefits the company in cost reduction.

4.User Experience:

Understanding what's slowing down an application's response time and supporting resources is critical.

By knowing the workflow of an application, it would be easier to understand the issue. It will help in improving the user experience. Better user experience leads to better sales.

5.Business Continuity:

As part of your business continuity plan, data backup and protection are crucial parts. Regardless of the type of crisis an organization experiences a natural disaster or power outage, storing the data in the cloud ensures it will be backed up and maintained in a secure and safe location. The ability to immediately access data allows the company to continue, as usual, avoiding downtime and interruptions.

Cloud Monitoring Tools:

1. Amazon Cloud Watch:

The resources and applications that are running on Amazon AWS are managed by Amazon Cloud Watch.

2. Microsoft Cloud Monitoring:

The resources that are using Microsoft Azure are managed by Microsoft Cloud Monitoring.

3. SolarWinds:

Solarwinds is a virtualization tool that helps in monitoring the performance of Virtual environments and hardware applications.

Note: Not sure how cloud monitoring works for your organization? Reach us out to request a FREE Demo of cloud security monitoring