Companies today need their security systems to do more for them. The threat landscape is such that they require both intelligence forecasting and real-time situational awareness to mitigate risks to their brand, employees, assets and customers. Many large companies are turning to a Global Security Operations Center (GSOC) to help them accomplish intelligence goals and ensure business continuity.
GSOCs can do anything from monitoring the performance of cameras, access control and security personnel to emergency response or tactical and strategic intelligence. A useful GSOC is one that understands the problem a company wants to solve, so that the data collection requirements and analytics are relevant and staff with the right expertise are in place. GSOCs should never take a collect everything approach. This leads to wasted resources and delays sifting through data to reach actionable intelligence.