Operational Cybersecurity

The previous generation SOC (Security Operations Center) and CERT (Computer Emergency Response Team) play complementary but distinct roles in your cybersecurity system:
The SOC provides continuous monitoring of your IT environment, detecting and analyzing threats in real time. It is a preventive and early detection function that operates 24/7/365. 

The CERT focuses on managing confirmed incidents, orchestrating the response to confirmed compromises. It is a reactive and remedial function that is activated during major security incidents. 
In our integrated approach (Detection & Response), these two entities are merged to ensure seamless continuity between detection and response, significantly reducing the impact of attacks on your business. 

Artificial intelligence is revolutionizing threat detection for several fundamental reasons:
Detection of unknown threats: Unlike signature-based solutions that can only identify known threats, AI can detect abnormal behavior indicative of zero-day attacks or advanced persistent threats (APTs). 
Large-scale analysis: AI can analyze massive volumes of data in real time, identifying subtle correlations between seemingly unrelated events that human analysts might miss.
Reduction of false positives: Machine learning algorithms continuously refine their accuracy,significantly reducing the false alarms that overwhelm security teams. 
Continuous adaptation: AI constantly adapts to evolving attack tactics, learning from each new incident to strengthen its detection capabilities.

Our AI SOC combines these technological advantages with the irreplaceable expertise of our analysts, creating an adaptive defense system capable of dealing with the most sophisticated threats in today's ecosystem. 

Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) radically transforms your approach to cybersecurity by shifting from a reactive posture to a proactive strategy: 

Threat anticipation: CTI enables you to identify malicious actors who specifically target your industry or organization and understand their motivations, capabilities, and methodologies before they take action. 
Informed prioritization: By contextualizing vulnerabilities according to active threats, CTI helps you focus your limited resources on the risks most relevant to your business.
Strategic decision-making: The insights provided by CTI inform your security investment decisions, allowing you to effectively allocate your budget where it will have the most impact. 
Reduced response time: In the event of an incident, prior CTI significantly speeds up the identification and understanding of the attack, reducing remediation time.
Our approach to CTI combines open technical sources, dark web research, and human intelligence to provide you with a multidimensional understanding of the threat landscape specific to your organization. 

The choice between an internal and outsourced SOC depends on several strategic factors that must be carefully considered:
Expertise and talent: An outsourced SOC provides immediate access to a team of certified experts without the recruitment and retention challenges faced in the tight cybersecurity skills market. 
Operating costs: Building an effective internal SOC requires significant investments in infrastructure, technology, and personnel, while an outsourced SOC offers a predictable financial model with reduced operating costs.
Technological evolution: Outsourced SOC providers continually invest in the latest detection technologies, offering constant modernization without additional investment cycles. 
24/7 coverage: Maintaining an internal team that is operational around the clock is extremely costly, whereas an outsourced SOC naturally provides continuous monitoring.
Our hybrid SOC model offers an alternative that combines the best of both approaches: your internal teams retain strategic control while our experts provide operational monitoring, creating optimal synergy tailored to your specific needs. 

The optimal frequency of penetration testing should be tailored to your risk profile and the dynamics of your IT environment:
Minimum frequency: For most organizations, a comprehensive annual assessment is the baseline standard for maintaining adequate security posture and meeting regulatory requirements. 
Progressive approach: For critical or high-value environments, we recommend a targeted quarterly model supplemented by an in-depth annual test, allowing sensitive systems to be checked regularly while maintaining a global view. 
Testing after significant changes: Regardless of the regular schedule, any major change in your infrastructure (new applications, mergers and acquisitions, cloud migrations) should trigger a specific test to assess new attack surfaces.
Continuous testing: The most mature organizations adopt a continuous offensive security approach where micro-assessments are performed continuously on different segments of the infrastructure. 

Our adaptive assessment methodology helps you determine the ideal frequency based on your industry, regulatory constraints, and risk tolerance, optimizing the balance between security and investment. 

The effectiveness of a SOC is assessed based on key indicators that must reflect both its operational capabilities and its business value:
Time metrics: MTTD (Mean Time To Detect) and MTTR (Mean Time To Respond) are fundamental indicators that measure the speed of threat detection and remediation actions, respectively. 
Accuracy indicators: The false positive ratio and the true threat detection rate assess the accuracy of the alerts analyzed and the ability to identify real attacks. 
Coverage measures: The percentage of the environment actually monitored and the diversity of log sources collected determine the scope of visibility of the SOC service.
Business impact: Reducing the average cost of incidents and minimizing business interruptions reflects the concrete value brought to the organization. 

Our ongoing assessment service incorporates these metrics into customized reports that allow you to clearly visualize the performance of your SOC and drive its improvement in alignment with your strategic objectives. 

A robust incident response plan is based on six fundamental components that structure a consistent approach to cyber crises:
Clear governance: Precise definition of roles and responsibilities within the crisis unit, with explicit decision-making chains and formalized escalation mechanisms. 
Documented processes: Development of playbooks detailing the actions to be taken for each type of incident, creating a standardized response framework that reduces errors under pressure.
Structured communication: Establishment of internal and external communication protocols, including notification templates for regulators, customers, and the media, ensuring a consistent and controlled message. 
Appropriate tools: Deployment of a technical infrastructure dedicated to crisis management, including investigation platforms, ticketing systems, and collaborative tools that facilitate the coordination of actions. 
Ongoing training: Implementation of a regular training program including simulations and tabletop exercises that develop team reflexes in critical situations.
Cyclical improvement: Systematic integration of feedback after each incident or exercise to continuously refine procedures and strengthen organizational resilience. 

Our CSIRT development methodology supports you in developing each of these elements, tailored to your specific context, to create a response system that transforms incidents into opportunities for improvement.