Security Operations Centre (SOC) Assessment: Evaluating Detection and Response

SOC assessment evaluates whether your security operations centre can effectively detect and respond to real-world attacks. Coverage assessment evaluates: are all critical data sources feeding the SIEM? Are detection rules aligned to the attack techniques relevant to your environment? Alert quality assessment evaluates: what percentage of alerts are true positives versus false positives? Are analysts investigating the right things? Response assessment evaluates: when a real alert fires, does the team follow established procedures? Can they contain and investigate effectively? The assessment often reveals that SOCs are overwhelmed by alert volume, with real attacks buried among false positives.