Security leaders often think that their security operations center (SOC) gets threat detection and response mostly right. However, in working with some of the biggest SOCs in the world, we’ve seen that companies routinely miss 50% of the malicious tactics they are tested against.

How can you know that your people, processes, and technology are prepared to stop a cyberattack? To make the most out of your SOC investments, you need a way to understand how your SOC is performing against the threats you face every day. 

With SightGain for Mandiant Security Validation, you can identify the knowledge gaps in your analysts with scheduled or unannounced attack scenarios on your production infrastructure. SightGain complements Mandiant Security Validation by providing customized training tailored to the learning needs of each individual to incentivize continuous improvement. All while accessing a real-time dashboard to map your team’s progress.

Watch the video below to learn how you can give your cybersecurity analysts the chance to train with live-fire action on the systems they use every day. 

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Video Transcript

Timestamps
0:00 Intro
0:45 SOC Myths
1:10 The Root Cause
1:31 Best Practices with MSV
2:05 Benefits of MSV + SightGain
2:22 MSV and SightGain Readiness Approach

We’re excited to help you make the most of your investment in mandating and security validation. Cybersecurity is a dynamic market and your SOC has to keep pace. New innovations and methods are being rolled out all the time. But how do you know if they’re right for you? How do you know if you’re making the most of your investment you’ve made in SOC? You need a way to understand how your SOC is performing against the threats you face every day, and we really think MSV and SightGain can help.

0:45 SOC Myths

People think that the SOC gets it mostly right. I mean they’re reporting metrics that say they’re stopping millions of malicious actions and emails and viruses. That’s just what they’re catching. In order to take advantage of the best practices in the market today, your SOC has to test against malicious activity in a routine basis. However, we’ve seen that even fortune 50 companies are routinely missing 50% of malicious tactics that they’re tested against using MSV. We’ve also seen and worked in some of the biggest SOCs in the world, and it’s safe to say that they’re missing things on a routine basis.

1:10 The Root Cause

So in this year of endless hacks, why are we still doing so poorly? We think the root cause is that many of these organizations are not testing proactively against their technology, process, and people. Because unless you’re testing and practicing against the techniques you’re supposed to stop, you’re just not going to stop them. 

1:31 SOC Best Practices with MSV

So how do you achieve industry best practices using MSV? Our customers take a readiness approach that starts from the ground up and focuses on the threats. Using MSV, this approach gets you the information you need for your organization to adopt industry best practices, and ensure you make the most of what you have, and then get what you need, not just the shiny new thing. So new methods can be tested and proved through routine testing and practices using MSV. 

2:05 Benefits of MSV + SightGain

This approach takes advantage of recent innovations that MSV has brought to market. By combining telemetry about your technology performance, the MSV provides with information about your personnel performance that SightGain provides, you can understand your system performance, rapidly increase your maturity, and soon be the market leader that everyone else turns to.

2:22 MSV and SightGain Readiness Approach

So to review, in order to adopt industry best practices, you have to know how well you’re performing. We recommend the cybersecurity readiness approach that starts with MSV to test threat against your performance of your technology, your people, and your process, and their ability to stop those threats, detect and respond to those threats in a timely manner. This process leads to continuous improvement based on hard data.

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