{"id":790092,"date":"2024-09-09T12:59:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-09T10:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=790092"},"modified":"2024-09-16T17:45:13","modified_gmt":"2024-09-16T15:45:13","slug":"mtn-business-empowers-south-african-cisos-by-hosting-informative-retreat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/industry-news\/790092\/mtn-business-empowers-south-african-cisos-by-hosting-informative-retreat\/","title":{"rendered":"MTN Business empowers South African CISOs by sponsoring informative retreat"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As part of its commitment to growing South Africa\u2019s ICT sector, MTN Business, partnering with Securicom, recently sponsored a retreat for South African Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This retreat was focused on delving into the realities of Security Operations Centres (SOCs) and was a tremendous opportunity for industry peers to discuss their experiences and share insights into bridging the gap between expectations and reality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mtnbusiness.co.za\/en\/Security-as-a-service\/Pages\/soc-as-a-service(socaas).aspx?utm_source=BusinessTech&amp;utm_medium=SponsoredArticle&amp;utm_term=September2024\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Click here to learn more about MTN Business\u2019s cybersecurity solutions.<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Discussions focused on unpacking key cybersecurity terms such as SIEM, EDR, XDR, MDR, SOAR, and SOC-as-a-Service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>CISOs discussed these terms in depth, highlighting the value they bring to businesses and the best ways to leverage these technologies to protect their businesses\u2019 most important data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The discussion highlighted that an SOC is not simply an impressive IT room filled with screens and monitoring tools; it is also a team of highly qualified individuals and a collection of critical processes that keep their businesses secure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Lessons learned<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>CISOs who attended the retreat then shared their experiences when setting up their SOCs and emphasized the challenges of deploying monitoring agents to forward logs to the organisation\u2019s SIEM systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Several CISOs highlighted the importance of SIEM and SOAR solutions that can automate playbooks and other processes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They said this is critical when operating an efficient, powerful SOC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>CISOs also spoke about the importance on validating existing cybersecurity controls regularly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Failing to do this could cause the following:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>False positives<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Increased noise<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Alert fatigue<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>By negating these issues, CISOs can ensure their SOCs run efficiently and are used to their full potential.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">In-house vs outsourced SOC<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>CISOs at the retreat also debated the best way to run an SOC \u2013 as some preferred maintaining an in-house SOC, while others preferred to outsource the function.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These discussions uncovered important insights from those who held each viewpoint, and left all in attendance with a better understanding of both approaches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A few CISOs were also sceptical about how much value an SOC actually provides, while many others argued it is an indispensable part of their IT security strategy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These debates were critical to the learning experience, as they exposed each CISO to viewpoints they hadn\u2019t previously considered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As a result, CISOs left this important retreat with valuable insights, best practices, and a new understanding of key cybersecurity topics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mtnbusiness.co.za\/en\/Security-as-a-service\/Pages\/soc-as-a-service(socaas).aspx?utm_source=BusinessTech&amp;utm_medium=SponsoredArticle&amp;utm_term=September2024\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Click here to learn more about MTN Business\u2019s cybersecurity solutions.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The retreat was focused on helping CISOs maximise their understanding of how to run an effective SOC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":790212,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10459],"tags":[20505,1019],"class_list":["post-790092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industry-news","tag-cybersecurity-solutions","tag-mtn-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=790092"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":791328,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790092\/revisions\/791328"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/790212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=790092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=790092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=790092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}