Common and Best Practices for Security Operations Centers: Results of the 2019 SOC Survey

In this survey, senior SANS instructor and course author Christopher Crowley, along with advisor and SANS director of emerging technologies John Pescatore, provide objective data to security leaders who are looking to establish a SOC or optimize an existing one. This report captures common and best practices, provides defendable metrics that can be used to justify SOC resources to management, and highlights the key areas that SOC managers should prioritize to increase the effectiveness and efficiency of security operations.