Open-Source Security Operations Center (SOC)

11Compliance and Regulatory Considerations in SOC

Introduction

As cyberattacks grow exponentially in scale and sophistication, governments and industries worldwide are enacting stricter regulations to protect consumers and critical infrastructure. Avoiding crippling financial penalties and legal liabilities from noncompliance has become an existential mandate for security leaders. By deeply embedding compliance visibility, readiness assessments, and regulatory response protocols into security operations, security operations centers (SOCs) provide the frontline defense, ensuring sustained business legitimacy.

Core Operational Integration Capabilities

Bridging compliance expertise into SOC capabilities requires purposeful integration spanning threat visibility, risk assessments, monitoring automation, and training functions

Continuous threat landscape monitoring

• Ingesting global threat advisories into security information and event managements (SIEMs)/security orchestration, automation, & response (SOARs) to identify emerging attack trends threatening control adequacy
• Tuning detection models to the latest attacker techniques and maintaining relevance

Incident notification protocols

• Establishing a mature incident response plan ensuring swift, legally mandated notifications differentiating contractual, criminal, and data subjects
• Instituting technical workflows automating breach notice dissemination, integrating threats directly to obligations

Compliance technical control ...