Companies need to keep SOC workers ready to detect attacks early and respond to intrusions quickly, says Adi Dar, CEO of Israel-based Cyberbit. With every sports team, if you don t train as a team, there is no way they will be able to work together at game time, he says. I don t know why companies expect a team that has not trained together under pressure to work well when there is an attack.
The training regimen of cybersecurity professionals in enterprise SOCs remains a problem, especially because demand for cybersecurity professionals remains high. In April, jobs board Indeed.com saw postings for technology and cybersecurity professionals drop 30%. However, those categories did better than the overall market during the pandemic, accounting for an 11% greater share of the posted positions.