[HTML][HTML] Learning from safety science: A way forward for studying cybersecurity incidents in organizations

N Ebert, T Schaltegger, B Ambuehl, L Schöni… - Computers & …, 2023 - Elsevier
In the aftermath of cybersecurity incidents within organizations, explanations of their causes
often revolve around isolated technical or human events such as an Advanced Persistent …

Challenges and performance metrics for security operations center analysts: a systematic review

E Agyepong, Y Cherdantseva, P Reinecke… - Journal of Cyber …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
The increasing use of Security Operations Centers (SOCs) by organisations as a part of their
cyber security strategy has led to several studies aiming to understand and improve SOC …

Security operations center: A systematic study and open challenges

M Vielberth, F Böhm, I Fichtinger, G Pernul - Ieee Access, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Since the introduction of Security Operations Centers (SOCs) around 15 years ago, their
importance has grown significantly, especially over the last five years. This is mainly due to …

99% false positives: A qualitative study of {SOC} analysts' perspectives on security alarms

BA Alahmadi, L Axon, I Martinovic - 31st USENIX Security Symposium …, 2022 - usenix.org
In this work, we focus on the prevalence of False Positive (FP) alarms produced by security
tools, and Security Operation Centers (SOCs) practitioners' perception of their quality. In an …

Matched and mismatched SOCs: A qualitative study on security operations center issues

FB Kokulu, A Soneji, T Bao, Y Shoshitaishvili… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
Organizations, such as companies and governments, created Security Operations Centers
(SOCs) to defend against computer security attacks. SOCs are central defense groups that …

[HTML][HTML] A systematic method for measuring the performance of a cyber security operations centre analyst

E Agyepong, Y Cherdantseva, P Reinecke… - Computers & Security, 2023 - Elsevier
Analysts who work in a Security Operations Centre (SOC) play an essential role in
supporting businesses to protect their computer networks against cyber attacks. To manage …

A cyber security data triage operation retrieval system

C Zhong, T Lin, P Liu, J Yen, K Chen - Computers & Security, 2018 - Elsevier
Data triage is a fundamental stage of cyber defense analysis for achieving cyber situational
awareness in a Security Operations Center (SOC). It has a high requirement for cyber …

Integrated network and security operation center: A systematic analysis

D Shahjee, N Ware - IEEE Access, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Traditionally, network and security operation center teams have worked in silos despite
commonalities. The network operating center (NOC) team is to provide operationality and …

Enacting expertise: Ritual and risk in cybersecurity

J Shires - Politics and Governance, 2018 - cogitatiopress.com
This article applies the concept of ritual to cybersecurity expertise, beginning with the
cybersecurity “skills gap”: the perceived lack of suitably qualified professionals necessary to …

True Attacks, Attack Attempts, or Benign Triggers? An Empirical Measurement of Network Alerts in a Security Operations Center

L Yang, Z Chen, C Wang, Z Zhang, S Booma… - 33rd USENIX Security …, 2024 - usenix.org
Security Operations Centers (SOCs) face the key challenge of handling excessive security
alerts. While existing works have studied this problem qualitatively via user studies, there is …