Cybersecurity Glossary
Security Operations Centre
A team that watches your alerts and responds, whether in house or bought as a service.
What Security Operations Centre means
A security operations centre provides monitoring and response outside your own working hours. For small organisations this is almost always a managed service. What matters is not the badge but the specifics: what they monitor, how quickly they respond, what they are permitted to do without asking, and what they hand back to you.
Why Security Operations Centre matters for small businesses and nonprofits
Attacks are timed for evenings, weekends and holidays precisely because nobody is watching. Tooling that alerts an empty office at two in the morning provides very little protection.
What to do about Security Operations Centre
- Ask what the provider is authorised to do at three in the morning without calling you
- Agree response times in writing, not just monitoring coverage
- Run a test incident before you rely on the arrangement
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