My latest adventure is writing a book on building and operating a world class Security Operations Center (SOC). This book is published and available for purchase through amazon.com.

Book Research

Other than my 20 years of experience in information security, I have been talking to a number of information security professionals as part of my research. The objective is to benefit from practical experience of a many people who have actually planned, designed, and built SOC and incorporate their experiences in the book.

Table of Contents & Download 

• Chapter 1: Introduction
• Chapter 2: SOC Business Case Development
• Chapter 3: Logs and other data sources
• Chapter 4: SOC Human Resources
• Chapter 5: SOC Technology Stack
• Chapter 6: SOC Implementation Planning
• Chapter 7: SOC Operations and Incident Response
• Chapter 8: SOC Staff Training and skills development
• Chapter 9: Threat Intelligence and Threat Hunting
• Chapter 10: Measuring Efficiency and SOC Metrics
• Chapter 11: Open Source Solutions for SOC