What is SOC? SOC is an abbreviation for Security Operations Center, a SOC improves any organization’s threat detection, incident response, threat prevention by unifying and coordinating all cybersecurity technologies and operations. A SOC is a team of IT security professionals who monitors 24×7 organization’s IT infrastructure to detect cybersecurity events in real time and respond to them effectively within a shortest period of time possible. SOC Activities and Responsibilities Preparation, planning and prevention Monitoring, detection and response Recovery, refinement and compliance 1. Preparation, planning and prevention Asset Inventory – SOC has a responsibility to maintain an inventory of the assets to identify which of them needs to be protected, assets can be inside or outside of datacenter. They can be databases, cloud services, applications, endpoints, servers or they can be tools used to protect the assets like firewalls, antivirus, antimalware, monitoring applications etc.