As IT environments continue to sprawl and organizations accumulate more and more technology without a change in security teams and budgets, understaffing is inevitable and good attack hygiene is no longer enough to protect organizations from potential breaches.
To get ahead of attackers, security teams are increasingly moving from prevention-only ideology into focusing on early detection and accelerated response. Catching and stopping attackers as soon as possible allows security teams to eliminate threats before they ruin an organization’s infrastructure. In order to implement this strategy, teams need the right level of visibility to capture actionable insights—without drowning in too much data.
Enter the Security Operations Center (SOC) Visibility Triad, a network-centric approach to threat detection and response, as described by Gartner in 2019.
The three pillars of the SOC Visibility Triad
The SOC Visibility Triad model leverages data from three core pillars:
Logs/user and entity behavior through security information and event management (SIEM)
Network traffic through network detection and response (NDR)
Endpoint detection and response (EDR)
Gaining comprehensive visibility into these three pillars of security operations makes all the difference in enabling a security team to catch attacks early on. Data aggregated from these three core security realms can give the SOC an overall view of the most critical activity across the entire environment, as well as important clues to the earliest and strongest indicators of a pending compromise.
Here is a breakdown of each pillar, the data it offers, and how it adds to the overall visibility of security threats across the technology environment.
