From the Summer 2025 Issue

From Detection to Direction: Security Operations Centers (SOCs) as Strategic Assets in Global Risk Management

Alessandro Azzaro
Independent Writer |

Henry J. Sienkiewicz
Faculty | Georgetown University

Once a reactive help desk, the Security Operations Center (SOC) has evolved from dealing with trouble tickets, server logs, and alerts to the nerve center of enterprise resilience. What began as isolated cybersecurity monitoring has evolved into a system integrating physical, digital, and geopolitical threat information in real-time. Today's SOCs are driven by artificial intelligence (AI), automation, and global intelligence, allowing them to move beyond mere observation to proactive anticipation of potential threats.

SOCs are the centralized operations solution adopted by most businesses, institutions and organizations to manage cybersecurity risk. Since their development during the 1990s, SOCs widely . . .

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