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PRESIDIO those forward .” A vSOC , he explains , is an outsourced , comprehensive , round-theclock data monitoring solution that enables a company to identify threats as they arise . “ We saw a gap in the market where we found companies building their own SOC . That can work for a while for companies but ends up enveloping their entire team as the vulnerabilities overwhelm them . They were looking for some help and we saw an opportunity to bring in our expertise and promote internal enterprise security teams so they can handle major events , while we are at hand to deal with the day-to-day events and protect their environment . We have been able to build a great practice around that .”
Traditionally , security events have been viewed through aggregating or logging programs like Palo Alto ' s Prisma , he explains . “ When those logs and events come in they typically go to a security center dashboard or platform , but we now see clients getting overwhelmed with a host of lower level alerts . They ' d never be able to hire enough analysts to cope with the onslaught of events . That ' s why our managed service component utilizes automation to the hilt to combat the problem of alert fatigue . We are doing that very successfully with the help of partners like Palo Alto and others , fighting automated attacks with our own machine learning defenses : our team here at Presidio has built a first class offering and a first class vSOC service .”
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