The new gold standard for business security: Protect your business with a unified, AI-powered SOC

We’re living in unprecedented times. The rapid pace of technology and AI advancements has accelerated the sophistication and speed of cyberattacks, with businesses facing hundreds of millions of cyberattacks each day worldwide.

New advancements in cyberattacks call for innovative approaches to business security operations. In this blog, we’ll explore how building a unified, AI-powered Security Operations Center (SOC) is the new gold standard for defending against cyberattacks and threats.

Quickly assessing the threat landscape

There are several critical factors shaping modern cybersecurity challenges. Today, malicious actors have access to smarter AI tools, allowing them to launch more sophisticated cyberattacks in greater volume than ever before. Meanwhile, businesses are expanding their digital operations to cloud and hybrid infrastructure, leaving more surfaces exposed to potential threats.

This two-fold issue calls for robust, proactive, AI-driven security that can detect and respond to threats immediately. To halt the growing wave of malicious cyber activity, businesses must embrace AI and automation and discard of manual, reactive security measures that can’t keep up with the pace of new threats.

Discover the power of a unified SOC platform

A unified Security Operations Center (SOC) platform offers a multitude of benefits to security teams in businesses of all sizes. It’s ability to simplify and streamline security operations, while offering all-encompassing protection is unmatched in modern security technology.

How a unified SOC platform works

A unified security operations center platform weaves together protection for endpoints, identities, email, apps, data and cloud environments with the critical SecOps functions of posture management, detection and response, and threat intel into a single experience.

This effectively minimizes the number of disparate dashboards, tools, and vendors security teams must check and operate, streamlining security operations into a single source of truth platform and speeding up response times.

Architecture built for the future

A modern SOC platform combines global threat intelligence with SIEM, XDR, cloud security, exposure management, and AI capabilities, covering your entire threat lifecycle while making it easier to detect and respond to threats. This empowers security teams to shift from reactive responses to proactive posture improvement, smarter triage and investigation, and unified threat hunting. Combining security infrastructure, not only strengthens your business’ security, but it simplifies it too, making it easier to see potential attacks and mitigate them before they make a significant impact on your business.

Fighting modern threats with generative AI

If malicious actors are leveraging the power of AI to attack businesses, those same businesses must leverage advanced AI tools to rapidly detect and block sophisticated threats. Today, businesses face more than 600 million attacks every day[1]. As the volume of attacks increase, analysts are becoming inundated with alerts and triage. Long queues increase the chances that a time-sensitive alert gets buried and negatively impacts your business before your security team can resolve it.

A unified SOC platform delivers a single, prioritized incident queue that automatically correlates alerts, enriches incidents with related threat intel, and prioritizes threats based on severity using regenerative AI tools that can read patterns and rapidly process large swaths of data. This gives your team a full view of potential threats, helps them quickly determine where attention is needed, and speeds up the time from detection to response.

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AI assistants like Microsoft Security Copilot bolster unified platforms by working across the platform to deliver key insights, automate routine tasks, and correlate alerts into clear incidents. AI tools can also learn and adapt to meet evolving threats head-on. For example, during investigation, AI tools can help your team see potential attack paths and reveal how future attacks might be able to target critical assets.

How to transition your business to a unified SOC platform

Traditional perimeter-based defenses are no longer sufficient at detecting and blocking modern cybersecurity threats. How can you transition your business to a unified SOC platform?

Zones Security Operations Center-as-a-Service (SOCaaS) operates as a powerful extension of your security team, building and managing a fully unified SOC on your behalf using Microsoft’s full security stack. The Zones SOCaaS team starts by parsing the logs from your network, devices, and security architecture through our cybersecurity analysis platform. Using advanced cyber defense technologies, our SOCaaS platform and our Security Operations Center team will then:

• Identify security and operational events in your IT environment.
• Detect suspicious activity that our SOC needs to investigate.
• Analyze the collected log data, correlate events and alerts, and triage.
• Respond by notifying your security team.
• Remediate the risk by advising your security team on remediation steps.

Zones uses Microsoft Defender XDR, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Microsoft Sentinel, and Microsoft Security Copilot to create a unified security system that spans your on-premises, cloud, and hybrid infrastructure, delivering comprehensive, best-in-class security across your organization. See how you can save time and money and protect your business using Zones SOCaaS powered by Microsoft.

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Conclusion

As AI and advanced technology increase the volume of cyberattacks and strengthen their ability to harm businesses, security teams must adapt by adopting an AI-powered, unified SOC that gives them a holistic view of threat detection and response.

Zones SOCaaS powered by Microsoft’s full security stack, gives businesses a smart, integrated solution to protect their people, data, and devices on one comprehensive platform. Start adapting today to protect your business tomorrow and beyond.