Best Practices for Auditing Security Operations Centers (SOC) for Compliance and Threat Detection

Abstract

SOC audits have been fundamental in maintaining compliance, highlighting security vulnerabilities, and the trustworthiness of an organization data stewardship. Since cybersecurity threats constantly evolve, it is important to optimize SOC audits in order to observe compliance requirements and perform threat detection well equally. This post highlights the key metrics and methodologies that are relevant in optimizing SOC audits, emphasizing their dual function of compliance and security benefit. The paper examines industry practices, compliance frameworks and advanced threat detection options that SOC audits can use to achieve the most effective results.