Security Operations (SecOps)
Navigating Cybersecurity Talent Shortage
Fulfilling the Demand
No matter where you fall in your strategy approach for toolsets, you’re likely seeing the most deafening trend firsthand, which is the shortage of cybersecurity professionals, it’s expected to reach 3.5 million unfilled positions by 2025. Unfortunately, the trends are true, there are too many security tools, with too many specialized skillsets required to run them effectively. In addition, those tools need to work with other tools, and some of them need to have around the clock coverage to ensure you’re protected when the bad actors get in.
To make this situation even worse, your most valued assets, people, are getting poached once they’re good enough to attract attention. All the time spent on training your staff, getting them certified with your key security tools, and then they realize what someone else will pay for their new skillset.
Unfortunately, this is a common issue that we have seen affect our clients in the past. They’ve found that the trend of competing with talent poachers is prohibitively expensive. The shortage of security engineers in the country is well-known, and it’s a situation that’s deteriorating as the threat landscape evolves. This evolution brings about more advanced ‘next gen’ tools, further compounding the challenge, but luckily ProCern has a solution
Need for Continuous Coverage
ProCern Security Operations (SecOps)
Tailored, Flexible Cybersecurity Support
Flexible Service Hours
Customizable Usage: The service provides a set number of monthly service hours, adaptable to your specific IT security needs. Tailored Assistance: Use these hours across your various aspects of your IT security systems, wherever and whenever required.
Consultative Approach
Expert Guidance: Unsure about the number of hours needed? Our Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) can assist in determining an appropriate starting point based on your requirements.
Quarterly Adjustments
Use Them or Lose Them: While the service operates on a use-them-or-lose-them basis, we offer the flexibility of adjusting your service hours quarterly. This ensures that you always have the right level of support. True-Up and Down: Regular reviews allow adjustments to service hours, aligning with your changing needs and ensuring optimal utilization.
Substantial Value Addition
Enhanced Security Posture: Our service strengthens your organization’s overall security posture. Cost Reduction: SecOps as-a-Service can be more cost-effective than hiring and maintaining a specialized in-house security team. Minimizing Turnover and Shelfware: Alleviate the issues of high staff turnover and underutilized security tools. Focus on Core Business: With ProCern handling your security operations, your team can concentrate on primary business goals.
Benefits
Access to Expertiese
Benefit from a team of skilled cybersecurity professionals. Ideal for organizations lacking in-house security resources.
Cost Effective Security
More affordable compared to establishing an internal SOC. Saves on hiring, training, tool investment, and infrastructure costs.
24/7 Monitoring and Response
Continuous vigilance against threats, even outside standard business hours. Proactive approach to minimize security incident impacts.
Scalable Solutions
Easily adaptable services to align with your organization’s growth and changing threat landscape.
State-of-the-Art Technology
At ProCern, we leverage state-of-the-art security technologies and threat intelligence, which may be cost-prohibitive for smaller organizations to implement. Some of those vendor solutions are also offered up as-a-service as well to enable easier consumption.
Compliance Reporting
We can also assist organizations in meeting regulatory compliance requirements by offering tailored reporting and audit support, in addition to ensuring that your security tools are acting as they should.
Reduced False Positives
With advanced analytics, tuning, and machine learning capabilities, ProCern can help reduce the number of false positives you’re seeing today, allowing in-house teams to focus on genuine threats rather than noise.
Rapid Incident Response
At ProCern, we are well-equipped to respond rapidly to incidents as well. Our experience and access to threat intelligence enables us to make informed decisions quickly.
Focus on Core Business
By outsourcing security operations, organizations can concentrate on their core competencies without the distraction of managing and monitoring security 24/7.
Global Threat Visibility
In addition to SecOps, we run a 24x7x365 MSSP with clients all over the world, thus granting us a view of emerging threats, enabling our teams to detect and respond to threats that may not be on an organization’s radar.
Industry Report – IT Staffing Shortages
Sec Ops as a Service
Frequently Asked Questions
The cybersecurity industry is experiencing a talent shortage due to increasing threats and the rapid evolution of specialized security tools, creating more demand than available qualified professionals.
The shortage results in overworked teams, poor tool utilization, and increased risk exposure due to lack of around-the-clock coverage.
After companies invest in training and certification, security professionals often receive more lucrative offers elsewhere, leading to frequent attrition.
By providing trained experts on-demand, reducing reliance on hard-to-hire full-time security staff. It minimizes dependency on in-house hires by offloading security operations to trained professionals.
Yes! ProCern’s SecOps-as-a-Service is designed to complement your existing team, filling in skill or coverage gaps as needed.
Alert fatigue occurs when analysts are overwhelmed by the volume of alerts—many of which are irrelevant—causing them to miss real threats. Security analysts report being unable to respond to 67% of daily alerts, with 83% of those alerts being false positives.
Yes, by applying expert analysis and tuning, ProCern can help filter out noise and reduce time wasted on false alarms.