Does your in-house team count as a SOC?​

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A Security Operation Centre (SOC) can only be defined through its capabilities and architecture. If you are not performing the capabilities listed below (either internally or outsourced through your current provider), then that group would not be considered a SOC.

SOC Operation
Security Monitoring and Detection
Incident Response
Vulnerability assessments
Compliance support
Data protection
Security tool configuration, integration, and deployment
Security administration
Security architecture and engineering of systems in your environment
Digital forensics
Threat research
Remediation
Security road map and planning
SOC architecture and engineering (specific to the systems running your SOC)
Pen-testing
Threat hunting
Threat intelligence (production)
SOC maturity self-assessment
Threat intelligence (attribution)
Threat intelligence (feed consumption)
Purple teaming