SOC Analyst

A SOC analyst is a cybersecurity professional who works as part of a team to monitor and fight threats to an organization's IT infrastructure, and to assess security systems and measures for weaknesses and possible improvements.

The Main Duties and Responsibilities Of A SOC Analyst

1. Investigate All Suspicious Activities.
   1. Maintain Secure Monitoring Tools.
   2. Liaise With And Delegate To The Rest Of The SOC Team.
   3. Review And Report On All Cybersecurity Processes.
   4. Keep All Security Programs And Resources Up To Date.

WHAT IS SIEM

Security information and event management (SIEM) technology supports threat detection, compliance and security incident management through the collection and analysis (both near real time and historical) of security events, as well as a wide variety of other event and contextual data sources. SIEM solutions allow organizations to efficiently collect and analyze log data from all of their digital assets in one place. This gives them the ability to recreate past incidents or analyze new ones to investigate suspicious activity and implement more effective security processes.

Is SIEM part of cyber security? Centralized visibility to detect, investigate and respond to your most critical organization-wide cybersecurity threats.

Relationship Between a SOC Analyst and SIEM A SOC analyst is still necessary for containment and eradication of the threat, but the SIEM will analyze network traffic, potentially block access, and send an alert to a security analyst to further research into the event. Complex and advanced threats are difficult to eradicate from an environment. The two cybersecurity strategies work together to protect internal resources. Without a SIEM, a SOC team does not have the right tools to detect and contain threats.

SIEM TOOLS Datadog security monitoring, Solarwinds security event management, Logpoint, Graylog, ManageEngine, EventLog Analyzer, ManageEngine Log360, Exabeam Fusion, Splunk, OSSEC, LogRhythm