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Irrespective of your organization’s size or complexity, a robust cybersecurity infrastructure is the key to protecting your network<\/a> and data. But common problems prevail for IT staff monitoring or managing potential threats: a constant triage of alerts, dispersed information challenging to gather, and lack of time, tools, or resources to effectively protect your organization.<\/p>\n

To ease these burdens, SECaaS and SOCaaS vendors have emerged as cloud-based security<\/a> as a service that can collect, analyze, and correlate your information from diverse systems and applications — turning former headaches into actionable information security intelligence.<\/p>\n

Security as a Service (SECaaS)\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n

In the growing universe of SaaS (Software as a Service)<\/a>, SOCaaS and SECaaS refer to cloud-built alternatives to your organization’s security operations center (SOC)<\/a> or security systems (SEC). For consolidation purposes, this article will refer to these services as SECaaS.<\/p>\n

What is SECaaS?<\/strong><\/h3>\n

SECaaS is a cloud-delivered, multi-tenant model for outsourcing cybersecurity services. On a subscription basis, these cloud services can secure access to applications no matter the host or where users connect (e.g., remote work<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Like SaaS, SECaaS can mean cost savings, flexibility for scaling, and the latest security updates. While it can also ease your IT staff’s burden, security as a service is not a replacement for your organization’s security managers.<\/p>\n

Where does SOC fit?\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n

A security operation center (SOC) functions as the command center for protecting, detecting, and preventing potential cybersecurity threats for an organization. Compliance<\/a> and security analysts, incident responders, engineers, and forensic investigators work together to offer uninterrupted monitoring and improved incident protection. SOCs organize to continually monitor and alert security analysts of possible intrusion and attack.<\/p>\n

Though any organization could benefit from an in-house SOC, they are often limited to the businesses and organizations with the financial resources to protect highly sensitive data.<\/p>\n

Common features of SECaaS\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Standard features of security as a service<\/a> vendors include many of the same benefits of having an SOC, like 24\/7\/365 monitoring, cybersecurity expertise, managed detection and response (MDR), network security, penetration testing<\/a>, incident response<\/a>, and threat intelligence<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Additional services offered by SECaaS vendors include:<\/p>\n