Cyberattacks on the healthcare industry are on the rise. In response, some larger systems, including Intermountain Healthcare in Salt Lake City, are setting up around-the-clock security operations centers, or SOCs, to better deploycybersecurity personnel, technology and processes in fending off the bad guys.
A SOC is a team, primarily composed of security analysts, organized to detect, analyze, respond to, report on and prevent cybersecurity incidents, according to Carson Zimmerman, principal cybersecurity engineer for the MITRE Corp., and author of a guidebook for setting up a SOC. Security operations centers have been fixtures in military and national security organizations for decades.
“At Intermountain, we had monitoring, we had detection, we just didn’t have people looking at it 24/7,” said Karl West, the system’s chief information security officer. “We’d go home and pagers would go off.” Intermountain began planning for its SOC in 2012, following a recommendation that was part of the system’s annual security risk assessment, he said. For the full article click here
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