Contributed ArticleTraditional approaches to cybersecurity are falling short of meeting the demands of today’s rapidly changing threat landscape. Organisations worldwide are trying to cope with the threats by bringing multiple teams into the picture – including system security, IT security, and digital teams.
This has however, resulted in silos within organisations and other related operational challenges. The good news is that these challenges can now be greatly mitigated and dealt with thanks to the advent of the cyber fusion centre.
Modern threats are much more sophisticated and prone to do more damage in less time
The cyber fusion centre brings together under the same roof different security functions such as event analysis, automation and orchestration, and incident response, strengthening a company’s ability to effectively respond in a timely manner when security incidents emerge. The cyber fusion centre is a cybersecurity saviour, acting as a next-generation security operation centre with much greater diligence and effectiveness than traditional security operation centres.
Traditionally, organisations host the security operation centre software and hardware themselves and build internal teams to run them. However, the cyber fusion centre takes away the burden of evaluating, procuring, hosting, implementing, configuring, and updating those other technologies require.
Traditional security operation centre technologies get outdated quickly and are unable to cope with evolving threats
Instead, all of these are offered as a platform billed on a monthly basis. The highly skilled team of analysts and engineers do all the heavy lifting of monitoring, triage and analysis, notification and detailed remediation support. Where traditional security operation centres can take up to a year to be stood up and optimised, the cyber fusion centre can be deployed and delivering meaningful results in a matter of weeks.
Traditional security operation centres are built around the SIEM Security Information, Incident Event Monitoring foundation, the primary reporting and dashboarding toolset at the centre of information gathering. Many different technology systems help create the infrastructure of security operation centres, and typically their integration is a daunting task. Several people and teams are responsible for different aspects of the security tool-stack, such as network monitoring and endpoints.
The cyber fusion centre is different by design and is proactive by nature
This process can quickly become inefficient during an incident. The traditional security operation centre response is similar to that of a firefighting system. The system only reacts when something goes wrong. Teams take an assembly line approach – doing their individual part, passing on the incident to the next team. This is time consuming and often misses the cohesive larger picture leading to a blame-game.
While traditional security operation centres may have proved successful in the past, modern threats are much more sophisticated and prone to do more damage in less time. Traditional security operation centre technologies get outdated quickly and are therefore unable to cope with the consistently evolving threats.
The cyber fusion centre is different by design and is proactive by nature. It utilises a collaborative intelligence-driven approach to stay ahead of emerging security threats. The cyber fusion centre is also technologically agnostic, taking away the heartache that customers experience whilst being forced to upgrade or swap tools whilst running their operations.
While it has been well known that it is essential to integrate people, processes, and technology, the cyber fusion centre as its name implies seeks to create a fusion of people’s mindsets, practices, and tools, resulting in a unified approach that produces significantly better output.
It utilises a collaborative intelligence-driven approach to stay ahead of emerging security threats
Cyber pandemics will continue with new variants of threats emerging every day. With the growth of these threats, defences against them must be expedited. Cyber fusion centre serves as an effective vaccine for businesses today, not only improving an organisation’s threat detection and protection capabilities but also streamlining systems and assimilating information into actionable strategies and tactics, reducing costs and improving productivity.
The cyber fusion centre is technologically agnostic, taking away heartaches that customers experience while being forced to upgrade during operations.
