Information Security Operations Center

An Information Security Operations Centre is operated by organizations or government agencies to assess, monitor, and protect mission critical data processed by various information systems of the enterprise including data center, websites, networks, work stations and so forth.

It offers a holistic approach to secure data and information from threats and comprises of people, processes, and technologies. An Information Security Operations Centre is highly complex and may be governed by array of regulatory restrictions for securing sensitive and classified data, conforming to industry regulations and government norms.

General focus areas of an Information Security Operations Centre are testing the state of security, monitoring security systems, and operational aspects of administration to maintain physical and network security.

There are different terms used to describe an Information Security Operations Centre. These are Infrastructure Protection Center, Security Intelligence and Operations Center, Cyber Security Center, and Threat Defense Center. It is observed that due to complexity of an Information Security Operations Centre, many organizations prefer to outsource the work of information security.