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The Middle Ground

To effectively combat the next generation of cybersecurity challenges, CSOs will need to create an
effective middle ground. This industry need has only been accentuated by the current economic
downturn, which is forcing many SOCs to cut budgets by providing the most bang-for-your-buck solutions
to secure vulnerable systems.

The trick for cybersecurity providers will be to offer a balanced number of solutions that effectively cover
a number of threat vectors – not so many that they lose their focus, but enough that clients can reduce
their reliance on an unwieldy number of security products. In the long term, more streamlined SaaS
cybersecurity systems can not only make it easier for SOC teams to employ, train, and retain their teams,
but actually reduce their workloads. Vendors must also strive to create easy to deploy and manage
integrated solutions that fit neatly within customers’ current systems, and which interact seamlessly with
their standard operating systems and business workflows. This ensures that both security team members
and general staff can easily leverage the benefits in a frictionless manner. In a similar vein, vendors
should provide tools and services that bolster a SOC team’s capacity, offering a lifeline for groups that
are understaffed and overworked. These could be supported by automated ML- and AI-based platforms
and actual cybersecurity experts in a managed SOC service to ease the strain of analyzing and
remediating the tide of malicious activity threatening to engulf companies.

Modern streamlined and decluttered cybersecurity solution suites should be hastened in by the realities
of the industry’s knowledge shortages and today’s economic challenges; however, going forward they
make the most sense for effective, efficient, and durable SOC teams.

About the Author

Motti Elloul is VP Customer Success and Incident Response at
Perception Point. He works with existing customers to educate and
help them maximize their product knowledge and solve issues that
may arise. Motti focuses on building sustainable customer
relationships by optimizing their asset protection and leveraging the
value of customer satisfaction. Motti has worked in people-centered
roles at Applause, Red Bend Software, and Nuance
Communications. He holds a BSc in Software Engineering from the
Jerusalem College of Engineering.

Motti can be reached online at https://www.linkedin.com/in/mottie/
and at our company website https://perception-point.io/

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