Security Operation Centre (SOC) Dashboards are essential tools in the modern digital landscape. They provide a comprehensive overview of an organization’s security posture, enabling SOC analysts to monitor, analyze, and respond to potential threats in real time. An example of a SOC Dashboard is depicted in the figure below.
A SOC Dashboard is a visual interface designed to present key security metrics in a clear and accessible format. It aggregates data from multiple sources to provide a holistic overview of an organization’s security posture. This centralized view helps security teams identify vulnerabilities, detect unusual activity, and evaluate the effectiveness of existing security controls. These dashboards are highly adaptable, enabling organizations to focus on the metrics that matter most to their operations. For example, they can be configured to show statistics like attempted intrusions, malware detections, or the current patch status of systems.
One important aspect of a SOC Dashboard is usability. It should offer a user-friendly interface that supports easy navigation and customization, while also integrating smoothly with the organization’s existing infrastructure. Another critical feature is real-time data updates. Given the dynamic nature of cybersecurity, having up-to-the-minute information is essential. A well-designed dashboard should continuously retrieve and display data from various sources without delay.
In summary, a SOC Dashboard plays a crucial role in modern cybersecurity defense. By offering a detailed and real-time snapshot of an organization’s security environment, it empowers teams to monitor, investigate, and respond to threats more efficiently. Selecting the right dashboard, however. However, choosing the right dashboard requires careful consideration of the organization’s specific needs and the features offered by the dashboard.
SOC Dashboards for SYMBIOTIK
For the SYMBIOTIK project, we have designed and implemented realistic incident response and investigation use case scenarios. From the wide range of SOC widgets available through SPHYNX’s Dashboards, a subset (referred to as baseline widgets) has been selected. These baseline widgets will be used in experiments where the SYMBIOTIK Platform applies specific adaptation operations on it, with the goal of investigating how such operations impact SOC analysts’ decision-making in time- and context-sensitive cybersecurity situations and workflows.
Through this approach, we aim to provide validation use case scenarios for SYMBIOTIK to demonstrate how its AI-driven awareness framework can support the development of next-generation SOCs. These enhanced SOCs will better assist organizations in understanding the threat landscape, minimizing blind spots in their defense posture (while reducing noise and alert fatigue), simplifying incident detection and response, and ultimately supporting risk management and strategic decision-making.