Security News > 2020 > April > Five contingency best practices for SOCs to handle uncertainty

SOCs are familiar with natural disasters and other inclement weather that includes floods, tornadoes and even ice storms, and it's critical to keep a SOC operational in the event that there is reduced local staff or access to physical infrastructure.

SOCs operate as busy, open-office environments with team members working closely together to monitor and mitigate threats.

In pursuing such an assessment and other proactive contingency planning, here are five best practices to consider.

What would happen if your chat functionality went down? What if your phone system was no longer available? How does your SOC team react in these situations to enable business to continue?

Organizations are universally looking to make these investments, as 97 percent plan to either move "Some or all" of their existing SOC analytics infrastructure to the cloud, replace on-premises security analytics solutions with native cloud-based alternatives, or supplement on-premise analytics tech with additional cloud-based capabilities, according to research from the Enterprise Strategy Group.

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