Security operations centers: a first principle idea.

The idea of operations centers has been around as far back as 5,000 B.C. This show covers the history of how we got from general purpose operations centers to the security operations centers today, the limitations of those centers, and what we need to do as a community make them more useful in our infosec program.

Resources:

• "5G/SOC: SOC Generations,” by HP ESP Security Intelligence and Operations Consulting Services, May 2013, Last Visited 30 June 2020. 
• “ABOUT ISACs,” by The National Council of ISACs, Last Visited 30 June 2020. 
• “A History of Western Technology,” by Friedrich Klemm, published by Iowa State Press, 1 July 1991, Last Visited 30 June 2020. 
• “A tour of AT&T's Network Operations Center (1979) - AT&T Archives,” by AT&T Tech Channel, 19 November 2012, Last Visited 30 June 2020. 
• “Phenomenati's Taxonomy of a SOC™ for Cyber Security Operations,” by Phenomenati, Last Visited 30 June 2020. 
• “Richard Pethia,” by the Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Last Visited 30 June 2020.  
• “Testimony of Richard Pethia, Manager, Trustworthy Systems Program and CERT Coordination Center Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Before the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations U.S. Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs,” Federation of American Scientists (FAS), 5 June 1996, Last Visited 30 June 2020. 
• “The CERT Division,” by the Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Last Visited 30 June 2020.  
• "The Exabeam 2020 State of the SOC Report,” by Exabeam, 2020, Last Visited 30 June 2020. 
• “The Morris Worm: 30 Years Since First Major Attack on the Internet,” FBI, 2 Novemebr 2018, Last Visited 30 June 2020.
• "The National Sigint Operations Center,” NSA FOIA Release, 4 May 2007, Wayback Machine, Last Visited 30 June 2020. 
• “U.S. Cyber Command History,” by U.S. Cyber Command, Last Visited 30 June 2020.