The traditional SOC can’t keep up

Historically, organizations investing in security operations buy products and expert staff, put them together, and trust that good things will happen. This results in the following problems:

Over-reliance on few senior team members
Bottlenecks
Technology that is used, but not optimized or measured
Unreliable security that gets worse over time

This is why organizations with skilled teams and lots of technology still get breached, and why the average tenure of a CISO is the lowest among the entire C-suite. Managed Security Service Providers face the same challenges, but at scale.

The Traditional SOC burns people out

It has been widely reported that there is a talent shortage in the cyber security industry. We believe that this shortage is less of a pure headcount problem and more of a failure to attract, train, engage, and retain naturally inquisitive people from diverse backgrounds. Traditional, coverage-oriented SOC models are NOC carry-overs, inspired by the military concept of standing a watch and buoyed by compliance requirements and overly broad application. Add to that rigid shift-based schedules with event overload and it’s no surprise that SOC analysts burn out and are difficult to retain.

The traditional SOC is too expensive

The average cost of an internal security operations center is anywhere from $1M to $10M+ for hardware, software, staff, and facilities. That kind of investment just isn’t possible for many organizations. The logical alternative is typically a third-party security service provider who, at best, provides nominal progress towards strategic goals and a fraction of the results that an internal team would produce. Whether internally staffed, outsourced, or a hybrid, adding more tools, people, and services to check off the defense-in-depth laundry list is a great way to burn lots of money without any assurance that you’re making the adversary’s job more difficult. Bionic optimizes current and future investments, both in people and technology, with straight-forward metrics to demonstrate initial and ongoing improvement.

Despite these glaring shortcomings of the legacy model, all previous work can be leveraged as part of your transition to revitalized operations. This reduces the investment, in both time and money, to recognize significant gains in the productivity and maturity of your security operations.

The Bionic Value Proposition

Individual, team, shift insights and recommendations, knowledge capture and sharing, detection content and report templates, and tailored queries and threat hunts.
Maturity measurement , metrics tracking, staffing insights and recommendations, process and playbook templates, and best practice recommendations.
Return on SecOps investment, cyber risk evidenced by SecOps performance, and true decision support.