Fundamentals of Information Systems Security, 4th Edition

Security Administration

Security administration within an organization refers to the group of individuals responsible for planning, designing, implementing, and monitoring an organization’s security plan, and the physical location where they work is often referred to as the security operations center (SOC). Even though it is not required that the SOC team work in a central location, it often does, where there are several large video screens that display real-time operational status of networks and information systems. With today’s remote and distributed workforce, it is possible for a geographically diverse SOC team to work closely to maintain environmental security, but that’s not all the SOC team members are responsible for. They work as a ...