June 19, 2025: In a massive twist of events, Bitdefender has announced their acquisition of Mesh Security Limited, a known email security startup headquartered in Ireland, to be soon merged with its GravityZone XDR. This acquisition strengthens Bitdefender’s position in protecting one of the most frequently exploited attack surfaces, email while reinforcing its focus on the managed services market.
Why Email Security Is a Critical Layer
Email continues to be a primary entry point for ransomware, phishing, business email compromise, and credential theft. Attackers have evolved their techniques, rendering traditional perimeter-based defenses less effective. Through this acquisition, Bitdefender will enhance its GravityZone XDR and MDR platforms by incorporating Mesh’s layered email protection and telemetry.
What Sets Mesh Security Apart
Founded in 2020, Mesh Security was purpose-built to tackle modern email threats in cloud environments, with a strong focus on serving MSPs.
The platform offers a dual-layered protection model. The secure email gateway at the perimeter effectively filters out known threats, enhancing our overall security posture. At the mailbox level, Mesh connects via API to continuously scan and act on suspicious messages that make it past initial filters. This enables real-time visibility and remediation inside tools like Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace.
Mesh is also known for its clean design, automation features, and MSP-native functionality. Multi-tenant support, policy templates, and integrations with popular PSA and RMM platforms like ConnectWise and Kaseya help MSPs deploy and manage the service with ease and efficiency.
What Bitdefender Gains from the Acquisition
Bitdefender intends to integrate Mesh directly into the GravityZone platform. The goal is to extend its XDR and MDR services to include email telemetry, which provides better threat correlation across endpoints, cloud, and inboxes.
This addition closes a major gap in Bitdefender’s threat coverage and transforms GravityZone into a more complete and connected defense system. It improves threat visibility, accelerates investigation processes, and enhances the efficiency of automated responses.
Amid the integration, Bitdefender has confirmed that Mesh leadership and core team will be the same as they continue to grow the platform. For MSPs currently using Mesh, there will be no pricing changes for the next 24 months. The roadmap will continue with added investment in support, engineering, and feature development.
This continuity has been well-received by MSP partners who value consistency and clarity in vendor relationships.
Bitdefender has been expanding rapidly over the past two years. It acquired Singapore-based Horangi Cyber Security in 2023 and made further inroads into Asia through its 2025 deal with BitShield.
The acquisition of Mesh Security represents a significant opportunity to enhance our product offerings and address an important gap in our portfolio. With email defense now in place, Bitdefender has become a more comprehensive vendor for organizations and MSPs seeking a single-source solution for security.
MSPs that rely on Mesh have praised its ease of use, reliability, and alignment with partner needs. The challenge now is to maintain that agility and MSP-first approach as the platform scales under Bitdefender’s brand.
Bitdefender’s move reflects a shift toward fully integrated cybersecurity stacks that are easier to manage and harder for attackers to evade. Email security is no longer optional. With Mesh, Bitdefender is delivering what the market demands, complete protection that connects every part of the security journey.
Secucenter’s Take
At SecuCenter, we view this acquisition as a timely and strategic enhancement to Bitdefender’s XDR capabilities. Mesh Security’s layered defense model fills a long-standing visibility gap between endpoint and cloud, especially within email communications.
This acquisition will convert the inbox from a weak link into a key source of threat intelligence. As a provider of white label SOC monitoring and soc staffing, we see clear synergy, i.e., our analysts can leverage this added telemetry to deliver more precise alerts, faster correlation, and stronger remediation guidance for MSPs and their clients.
On May 15, 2025, Coinbase acknowledged its most serious security lapse to date, a breach that could ultimately cost the exchange as much as $400 million and has compromised records for more than 69,000 customers. Investigators traced the incident to an overseas contact center operation: hackers bribed a handful of support agents in Indore, India, to capture screenshots and copies of customer data stored in internal systems.
Those agents worked for TaskUs, a U.S.–headquartered BPO firm that has handled Coinbase support queues since 2017. According to multiple reports, the attackers, described as a loose network of young, English-speaking cybercriminals, offered cash incentives to TaskUs employees willing to leak sensitive information, including names, email addresses, and partial account details.
A Breach Months in the Making
Internal logs show Coinbase first spotted suspicious activity months before the disclosure. By January 2025 the exchange had quietly asked TaskUs to dismiss 226 agents from its Indore office, many of whom were later linked to the leak. When criminals attempted to extort Coinbase on May 11, the company cut the remaining ties, tightened access controls, and publicly confirmed the breach four days later.
Although no passwords, private keys, or crypto balances were exposed, the stolen data is still valuable for targeted phishing and social engineering schemes. In response, Coinbase posted a $20 million reward for information leading to the perpetrators and pledged to reimburse any customers tricked into sending funds to attackers.
The Weak-Link Problem in Outsourced Support
This event underscores how quickly a single compromised vendor can undermine even a well-resourced security program. With call center staff often granted broad view access to resolve user tickets, bribery, extortion, or simple negligence can open the door to large-scale data theft.
How MSPs and MSSPs Can Help Businesses Respond and Prepare
Vendor-Access Hardening
Perform stringent due diligence reviews of every third-party help desk or BPO partner. Enforce least-privilege access, screen for insider-threat indicators, and require periodic audits that map who can see customer data and why.
Zero-Trust Architecture
Implement identity-centric controls so support personnel must re-authenticate for sensitive actions, and isolate customer records behind segmented networks.
24×7 Insider-Threat Monitoring
Deploy behavioral analytics tools that flag unusual data exports, screenshotting, or off-hours access by frontline agents—even if they connect from approved workstations.
Real-Time Data-Leak Detection
Integrate dark web monitoring and breach-intelligence feeds to identify stolen client information quickly, enabling rapid customer notifications and credential resets.
Phishing-Resilience Training
Offer continuous education and simulation campaigns so both vendor staff and end users can recognize and report social engineering attempts spawned by leaked records.
Incident-Response Playbooks
Maintain clear escalation paths that include vendors. Regular tabletop exercises should cover scenarios where outsourced employees become malicious insiders.
Post-Breach Remediation Guidance
After an exposure, MSPs can coordinate forced password rotations, enable or enforce multi-factor authentication, and assist with credit- or identity-protection services for affected users.
Contractual Security Clauses
Help clients renegotiate BPO agreements to include penalties for lapses, mandatory breach reporting within defined timelines, and explicit cybersecurity framework adherence (e.g., SOC 2 or ISO 27001).
By combining preventive controls with rapid detection and a vendor-inclusive response strategy, MSPs and MSSPs can turn the Coinbase incident into a blueprint for stronger, more resilient security across their customer base. To extend this service around the clock, Secucenter has its army ready to assist at all times.
Our SOC monitoring services are designed for MSSPs that offer a complete package of cybersecurity to their customers. We understand the importance of data and privacy, and thus, our proactive approach makes us fit in the cyber market to detect and deter threat actors.
Fortinet has found itself at the center of an unauthorized access wherein the attackers have taken over full device control. The vulnerability detected in the OS was CVE-2025-22252(Missing Authentication for Critical Function) with a critical severity of 9.0 that allows an attacker knowledgeable of an existing admin’s account to access the device and bypass authentication.
It exists in FortiOS, FortiProxy, and FortiSwitchManager TACACS+ configured to use a remote TACACS+ server for authentication. After being discovered by Cam B from Vital and NBS Telecom’s Matheus, Fortinet quickly took action to prevent any further progress by the threat actor.
Under this threat, which products have been affected? Let’s find out.
As per the security advisory, three of the twelve products are affected. Here’s how they’ve summarized the affects and the action we can take.
Affected Products
Remedy
FortiOS 7.6
Upgrade to 7.6.1 or above
FortiOS 7.4 Through 7.4.6
Upgrade to 7.4.7 or above
FortiProxy 7.6.0 Through 7.6.1
Upgrade to 7.6.2 or above
FortiSwitchManager 7.2.5
Upgrade to 7.2.6 or above
FortiNet has assured that the current vulnerability is limited to configurations that require ASCII authentication. PAP, MSCHAP, and CHAP configurations are safe from the impact. Additionally, Fortinet offers two workarounds that do not use ASCII authentication, which can prevent the vulnerability from impacting other devices. This aims towards organizations who may not be able tp make the upgrade sooner.
As an experienced cyber expert, Secucenter has seen how large-scale cybersecurity companies and their products are targeted to access client data for many negative reasons. Staying secure is not a one-time thing, but a recurrent requirement that needs attention. If you are an MSSP, then our dedicated SOC services are here to provide that extra layer of protection to your clients from current and future threats.
A critical vulnerability score of 10/10 is a very rare circumstance, and Microsoft seems to have caught itself in one of those.
Recently, Microsoft confirmed that their core cloud services were impacted by several critical vulnerabilities, one rated at 10, while the others were rated at 9.9 and 9.1, respectively. As users, what do you do in this situation? Well, nothing! That’s right; Microsoft has also confirmed all their users are protected from the vulnerability and their information is secured tightly.
So, what are these vulnerabilities, and how can we categorize their severity? Four of them were detected and we can understand the scale they fall into.
CVE-2025-29813: Azure DevOps Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Visual Studio has a significant elevation of privilege vulnerability triggered by inappropriate handling of pipeline job tokens.. It could allow an attacker with access to a project to swap a short-term token for a long-term one, thereby gaining extended access. With a CVSS score of 10.0, the vulnerability is exploitable over the network without requiring privileges or user interaction, and it poses a high risk to confidentiality, integrity, and availability.
A critical spoofing vulnerability involving Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) in Azure. It allows an authorized attacker with low privileges to send unauthorized requests over a network, potentially spoofing internal services. With a CVSS score of 9.9, the vulnerability is easy to exploit, requires no user interaction, and can significantly impact confidentiality, integrity, and availability.
CVE-2025-29827: Azure Automation Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
A critical elevation of privilege vulnerability in Azure Automation was caused by improper authorization controls. It enables an attacker with low-level access to escalate their privileges over the network. With a CVSS score of 9.9, this vulnerability poses a high risk to confidentiality and integrity, with moderate impact on availability. It requires no user interaction and is low in complexity to exploit.
CVE-2025-47733: Microsoft Power Apps Information Disclosure Vulnerability
This vulnerability ranges to a critical scale of 9.1 that allows an attacker to disclose information over the network. It is a high-severity information disclosure vulnerability in Microsoft Power Apps, stemming from a Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) issue.
Though this was a security concern for many individuals and businesses working with Microsoft cloud services, it proved the swiftness of Microsoft to immediately safeguard its customers. As a cybersecurity expert, Secucenter offers a second layer of cyber protection for every organization. We understand the importance of protecting important data from threat actors who are as advanced as the tools that are being invented. Thus, to ensure long-term operations, an organization can always utilize an additional agent of cybersecurity.
In today’s threat landscape, SOCs face mounting pressure from alert fatigue, tool sprawl, to a shortage of skilled analysts. A recent ISC² report reveals a global cybersecurity workforce gap of over 4 million professionals, leaving many SOCs critically understaffed. Meanwhile, cyberattacks are growing in volume and sophistication, demanding round-the-clock vigilance. For many organizations, maintaining an effective SOC in-house has become an uphill battle. This blog explores the most pressing SOC challenges and how outsourcing with Secucenter for SOC staffing and SOC monitoring can bridge gaps, reduce burnout, and boost security posture, without compromising control or compliance.
Secucenter is a white-label SOC partner designed to support MSSPs in overcoming these limitations. By extending expert SOC capabilities, we empower providers to grow with confidence, meet client demands, and strengthen their service offerings. In this blog, we will explore the key challenges MSSPs face and how Secucenter helps solve them.
Top SOC Challenges : What Security Operations Must Prepare For ?
From a myriad of SOC challenges, let’s discuss what the 10 most relevant and constantly nagging ones we solve with our white label SOC team. Here are the top SOC challenges in 2025:
Intelligent Threat Evolution
Burnout Behind the screens
Alert Fatique
Round The Clock Monitoring
Meeting Scalability
Regulatory and Compliance Pressures
High Operational Costs
Maintaining service quality
Integration Challenges
Growing Competition
1.Intelligent Threat Evolution
Modern cyber threats are stealthy, AI-driven, and constantly evolving to bypass traditional defenses. MSSPs face mounting pressure to keep pace, but talent shortages, tool overload, and rising client expectations make it difficult to respond effectively.
Without the right expertise and proactive strategies, threats can linger undetected, putting client environments at serious risk and stretching MSSP resources thin.
Our Solution: Proactive Threat Hunting
Our team of SOC engineers is well-advanced in their stream of cybersecurity, having experience detecting and dealing with threats effectively. By introducing proactive measures to hunt threats, we assure MSSPs and their clients the safety of their systems from malicious actors.
2. Burnout Behind the Screens
Running a 24/7 SOC isn’t just about tools and alerts, it’s about people. MSSPs are constantly balancing high client expectations with low analyst availability. The result? Overworked teams, missed threats, and rising turnover. Many MSSPs find themselves stuck in a loop: scrambling to fill roles, chasing false positives, and trying to keep morale up while the threat landscape keeps shifting.
Our Solution: Skilled and Certified Security Experts
We have highly skilled experts who are certified cyber specialists. With limited talent and short-staffed MSSPs, addressing a high volume of cases with our talented team of SOC experts can be as easy as it gets. We take the burden of finding talent and managing overhead costs, providing a valuable extension to your team.
3. Alert Fatigue
Every beep, ping, or flash on a dashboard could be the start of a breach or just another false alarm. For SOC teams, it’s a never-ending storm of alerts. While automation helps filter the noise, high-priority flags still demand human eyes.
The problem MSSPs face is too many alerts and not enough people. Over time, even the best analysts start to tune out and that’s when real threats slip through the cracks.
Our Solution: Synchronize Automation With Your Team
Our expertise in various tools enables MSSPs to streamline all their clients’ alerts effectively. Though our proactive methods grab onto any threats, ticketing alerts ensure every issue is addressed efficiently and with due diligence. We analyze every alert, no matter how minor, to identify patterns and detect similar issues in the future.
4. Round-The-Clock Monitoring
Cyber threats don’t clock out, but your team eventually has to. For many MSSPs, maintaining true 24/7 monitoring is easier said than done. Nights, weekends, and holidays often mean skeleton crews or on-call rotations, and burnout hits fast.
Our Solution: Enhanced Security Capabilities
Our SOC monitoring service strengthens MSSPs’ security posture with 24/7 monitoring and advanced threat detection techniques, ensuring potential issues are swiftly identified and addressed. By providing enhanced security features, we enable MSSPs to deliver comprehensive services that protect their clients’ systems and devices from threats at all times.
5.Meeting Scalability
No two clients are the same; some need deep-dive threat analysis, others just want the basics. As MSSPs grow, so do client expectations, and suddenly the team that handled five clients with ease is now drowning with fifteen.
Scaling isn’t just about adding tools; it’s about people, processes, and bandwidth. Without the right support, MSSPs often face a tough choice: take on more and risk quality, or stay small and limit growth.
Our Solution: Scalability and Business Growth
We help MSSPs scale their operations effortlessly by aligning our goals with your clients’ needs, which can pave the way to your business growth. Our adaptable SOC services are built to meet changing needs by providing complete protection as your customer base and security requirements grow. We support you through scalability, allowing you to focus on core business activities, delivering exceptional value to your customers while we manage your cybersecurity needs.
Compliance with appropriate security regulations such as GDPR, HIPAA, and PCI DSS is necessary for MSSPs to function with different clients across different bases. MSSPs must navigate a complex web of regulations, which can vary by industry and region, to ensure client compliance.
However, maintaining this can be overwhelming by keeping their resources updated and versatile to meet every need.
We deliver in-depth reports and comprehensive documentation designed to assist you in meeting regulatory compliance requirements. Our resources not only ensure that you adhere to all necessary guidelines but also provide actionable insights that can drive informed decision-making and enhance your operational efficiency.
7. High Operational Costs
Staying ahead in cybersecurity means constant reinvestment in new tools, training, and talent. But for MSSPs, tight margins make that tough. Upgrading tech and hiring skilled analysts isn’t just expensive, it’s often out of reach.
Many MSSPs find themselves stuck, forced to choose between staying competitive and staying within budget. The result? Slowed growth, outdated systems, and missed opportunities to better serve their clients.
Our Solution: Cost Efficiency and Financial Savings With our years of experience, we have gathered how MSSPs looking to operate on a wider range struggle to meet their goal with a budget cap. We help MSSPs achieve significant cost savings by enhancing operational efficiency and reducing expenses related to staffing, training, and maintaining an in-house SOC.
8. Maintaining Service Quality
Every client expects top-tier service, but not every client is the same. MSSPs often support businesses across different industries, each with unique compliance requirements, risk tolerances, and infrastructure setups. Juggling these varied needs while maintaining consistent service quality is a constant challenge. Limited resources, shifting priorities, and complex client environments make it hard to give each customer the dedicated attention they expect, leading to missed SLAs, slow response times, and strained relationships.
Our Solution: Aiding MSSPs To Upkeep Service Quality
To ensure consistent service quality for a growing client base, Secucenter provides trained specialists who follow standardized processes to streamline operations and reduce variability. By following the frameworks, we are on par with your team and ensure to enhance the user experience of every client. Regular audits play a key role as well, identifying gaps, ensuring compliance, and reinforcing accountability. Together, these practices create a strong foundation for trust, performance, and long-term client satisfaction in a competitive, fast-paced security landscape.
Security tools are essential to SOC advancement and MSSP growth, but integrating them effectively remains a significant hurdle. Each client environment presents unique requirements, often involving different platforms, compliance standards, and existing infrastructure.
Aligning these varied systems into a cohesive, functional security stack is both time-consuming and resource-intensive.
Our Solution: Expert Assistance
Our dedicated SOC experts are highly skilled in every significant SOC tool and offer their professional services in integrating tools into clients’ systems and devices. Our specialists work closely with clients to ensure that every integration enhances the overall security posture, effectively protecting sensitive data and responding to potential threats with precision.
10.Growing Competition
The global market for MSSPs is expected to surpass $77 billion by 2030, due to increasing cyber threats and a growing demand for outsourced protection. While this growth signals opportunity, it also introduces intense competition. Thousands of MSSPs are competing for attention, many providing similar services. Establishing a clear USP, like 24/7 support or proactive threat detection, is essential.
Our Solution: Competitive Advantage
At Secucenter, you can always find a solution that supports your MSSP goal. We ride with your requirements, meeting client requirements on time, addressing high-priority concerns, and escalating major threats. By having a SOC partner that offers 24/7 service in major areas like staffing and monitoring, you gain a competitive advantage as a leader in the industry.
Ready To Take The Next Step?
MSSPs serve as the foundation of cybersecurity protection, and their growth depends on their core competencies. As a white label SOC partner, we are dedicated to offering our expertise to MSSPs in overcoming the above SOC challenges and even more. If you are looking for growth, reliability, and versatility, then Secucenter is only a call away.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ’s)
1. How can we reduce alert fatigue that overwhelms our SOC team?
Typically, placing an automation tool, creating shifts, and improving alert prioritization would fix the issue, albeit temporarily. Thus, Seucenter offers its expert SOC services to MSSPs who are looking to eliminate alert fatigue in their team while ensuring their client queries are addressed effectively.
2. What strategies help address the shortage of skilled SOC analysts?
Through our SOC staffing, we are able to address the shortage of skilled SOC analysts. Our team of SOC engineers is experienced with all the advancements there are and can be placed seamlessly with your existing team.
3. How do we improve incident response times during peak workloads?
To enhance incident response times during peak workloads, we focus on prioritizing incident triage and automation, ensuring clear communication, and utilizing incident response tools to streamline processes.
The CISA has blazoned the continued civil backing for the CVE program, icing the ongoing operation of a system that’s essential for global vulnerability shadowing. This development came amidst a jacked position of concern within the cybersecurity assiduity, following reports that the current contract with The MITRE Corporation is listed to expire on April 16 without plans for renewal.
CVE, managed by MITRE, serves as an encylopedia with standardized IDs for given security excrescencies and support tools used by merchandisers, experimenters, and SOCs worldwide. MITRE has been entering backing from the Department of Homeland Security’s National Cybersecurity Division. CVE supports multitudinous security tools, fabrics, and protocols.
The urgency around backing was amplified by MITRE Vice President Yosry Barsoum, who intimately advised that a lapse in fiscal support would disrupt not only the CVE program but also the Common Weakness Recitation( CWE) action. Barsoum states that such a dislocation could affect vulnerability databases, software seller collaboration, automated discovery tools, and indeed public critical structure defense systems. The warning emphasized the critical significance of foundational systems in the overall cybersecurity ecosystem.
In a visionary response to the adding concern around centralized backing, members of the CVE Board lately blazoned the conformation of the CVE Foundation, a nonprofit reality created to insure the program’s long- term sustainability and global impartiality. The foundation, which has been in development for over a time, aims to reduce dependence on any single government guarantor by transitioning CVE to a more community- driven governance model.
A statement from the founding group stressed the growing apprehension within the cybersecurity community regarding the future of such a pivotal system being reliant on a single point of backing. The program aims to enhance translucency, promote participated responsibility, and acclimatize flexibly as it evolves to address arising global challenges.
Meanwhile, other transnational players are taking way to make resemblant systems that support global cyber adaptability. The European Union Agency for Cybersecurity( ENISA) has launched the European Vulnerability Database( EUVD), a cooperative platform that summations vulnerability data from a range of public sources. This reflects a broader trend toward distributed, multi-stakeholder approaches to cybersecurity structure.
As the global security terrain becomes decreasingly complex and distributed, security operations centers must be equipped to reuse, prioritize, and act on vulnerability data with speed and perfection. This is where Secucenter delivers real value through their moxie. Secucenter’s advanced SOC capabilities enable real- time sapience, contextual trouble discovery, and nippy response, helping associations transfigure critical vulnerability data into decisive action
With the ever-growing market of digitalization, the looming negativity of cyber threats is just as evolving. As per CrowdStrike, 2024 witnessed the fastest recorded eCrime at 2 minutes and 7 seconds. However, for businesses who wish to grow their service boundaries, being on the internet is vital. This is where you invest in SOC tools that proactively monitor, detect, and mitigate cyber threats.
The Security Operations Center is a centralized unit that is assigned to monitor, detect, and deter cyber threats in real-time. It operates 24/7, using advanced SOC tools like SIEM, threat intelligence, and automation to protect an organization’s systems, data, and networks. For business continuity, a SOC team ensures the prevention of cyberattacks and minimizes damage.
Popular SOC Tools To Know About
SOC tools are mainly divided into two purposes: monitoring and staffing. Thus, we divide the two and dwell on the tools each of these uses.
a) SOC Monitoring
SOC monitoring is utilized by organizations to oversee their networks, systems, and servers proactively to ensure threats are detected at their earliest and diffuse its approach immediately. The tools MSSPs use for SOC monitoring are as follows.
1. SIEM( Security Information and Event Management) Tools
SIEM tools are used to collect and analyze data from multiple sources to identify threat patterns. They collect sources from firewalls, servers, and applications for a clear vision of the threat and provide valuable insights for SOC analysts to work with. SIEM also generates alerts when anomalies are detected, giving the SOC team the urgency to respond to them quickly.
Below is a list of organizations that offer SIEM tools, along with the features that set each one apart.
Utilizes advanced analytics and machine learning to identify threats and anomalies that might otherwise remain undetected.
Scalability through cloud networks is easily possible as Sentinel is cloud-native and can handle massive amounts of data through the cloud and provide accurate security.
Includes SOAR capabilities that enable automated responses to security incidents.
Has a powerful correlation engine. It means that Arcsight can analyze data in a high volume and detect threat problems that may have been missed under the radar.
Provides comprehensive log management that ensures the data is collected and processed appropriately for analysis and mitigation of threats.
SmartConnectors are essential components that enable the collection and normalization of data from various sources.
These connectors streamline the integration of multiple security devices and applications into the SIEM platform.
Allows the integration of threat intelligence feeds that keep the team updated on the latest threats and solutions to effectively detect them.
2. EDR Tools (End-Point Detection Response)
EDR tools are focused on monitoring the endpoints of the system such as computers, servers, and mobile devices. These are helpful in indicating the pathways through which threats can enter end devices and mitigate them at its earliest.
Their solutions use behavioral analysis and machine learning to understand the pattern of threats that traditional antivirus tend to miss.
Here is a list of organizations that provide EDR tools, highlighting the unique features of each one.
Focuses on detecting malicious behavior as it is rather than a signature-based detection. Due to this, identifying threats such as zero-day exploits can be blocked immediately.
Its cloud-native architecture allows MSSPs to deploy and manage endpoint security across a large number of devices.
Gives real-time visibility into endpoint activities, enabling security teams to promptly identify and investigate potential threats.
Includes automated response that enables the security team to diffuse a threat and minimize its impact immediately.
IDS and IPS are used to monitor the network traffic for suspicious activities and attacks. While there are numerous entries and exits throughout a network, IDS/IPS never fail to identify threat patterns.
IDS is equipped to passively detect and alert potential threats while IPS actively blocks malicious activities. These systems are crucial for identifying and deterring unauthorized access attempts, brute-force attacks, and malware infections for business continuity.
Here is a list of organizations that provide IDS/IPS SOC tools, along with the key features that make each one unique.
Introduced to handle high-volume traffic through multiple sources.
This agile tool utilizes the processing of multi-core CPUs to power its multi-thread architecture, enabling suitable defense in different environments.
It can automatically detect threats across a wide range of network protocols.
This induces an effective position to expose hidden anomalies within various network traffic types.
It uses signature-based detection and behavioral-based analysis to understand the threat pattern.
This can also be customized to the users’ requirements for security protection.
b) SOC Staffing
SOC staffing is essential for MSPs and MSSPs as the growing cybersecurity needs can keep their in-house team occupied more than their capabilities. In such cases, turning to outsourcing professional SOC staff can be an effective way to compensate for the skill gap yet address cyber issues of organizations swiftly.
Once MSSPs can get their team together, they’ll train on the SOC tools they employ to aid their clients and ensure they are ready to attend. Most of the tools that they use are mentioned above. However, a few tools used to aid SOC staff and measure their performance are listed below.
Threat Intelligence and Knowledge Management Tools
Threat intelligence platforms are often used by SOC analysts to proactively collect, analyze, and share security information within the organization to stay ahead of cyber threats. Tools that facilitate this process are:
Anomali ThreatStream: This tool aggregates anomalies and threats from multiple sources transforming them into actionable insights for SOC analysts to work with.
Recorded Future: Built to identify threats early, prioritize risks efficiently, and tackle key concerns proactively. This solution helps organizations prevent threat actors before they can attack.
MITRE ATT&CK Navigator: This is a free, web-based framework that helps SOC analysts understand adversary tactics, techniques, and purposes. It is a key asset for MSSPs to provide proactive cyber solutions.
Training and Simulation Platforms
Cyber threats are growing uniquely and are smarter than ever. SOC analysts are responsible for mitigating it promptly.
Through training and simulation sessions, analysts know what’s new in the cyber world, adopt methods to mitigate them, and stay constantly updated. Programs that offer simulation experience to SOC analysts are:
Immersive Labs: Provides gamified challenges to SOC analysts for an immersive experience and learn from the tasks.
RangeForce: Offers interactive cybersecurity training sessions with modules and examples for SOC professionals to be aware of.
Cyberbit Range: A training platform made to train professionals through real life threat simulations and educate them on the ways to tackle them.
As much as SOC expertise is important in maintaining and managing the cyber barriers of a business, SOC tools ensure secure business practices more effectively and simultaneously with manual labor. But, that’s not it, let’s venture more about how SOC tools build the wall of safety for businesses.
Real-Time Threat Monitoring
SIEM tools are put in place to detect anomalies in real time and address their purpose. End-point Detection from various sources provides aggregate logs of those who enter the network and trace malicious activities if unusual patterns are detected.
Threat Detection and Analysis
Introducing AI to the industry, many AI-driven threat detection tools have emerged that actively and effectively crawl through networks, systems, and servers to detect threats.IDS assists MSPs and MSSPs in helping businesses detect and eliminate unauthorized intrusions promptly.
Response To Incidents and Mitigation
Incident response and mitigation tools in SOC are responsible for managing and maintaining cyber security. Once, they detect an unusual anomaly, automated responses are deployed to minimize their presence and further movement into the system. Tools like SOAR streamline the investigation and mitigation of threats effectively.
Continuous Improvement and Reporting
Automation tools are used to find trends in past attacks to forecast areas that need improvement and make efforts to nullify them. With their comprehensive interface, MSPs and MSSPs can report their progress to businesses promptly.
Secucenter Offers Trend-Foward Cyber Solutions
Recently, the development of new SOC tools are seen to be AI-driven and aimed at easing routine manual tasks, cancel out false alerts and identify the complex natures of new cyber threats. WIth such developments, placing an antivirus and crossing fingers it protects organizations’ privacy is only the tip of the iceberg. At Secucenter, we believe having a team of professional SOC experts to oversee your clients’ security barriers is highly effective.
For this purpose, we introduce you to our dedicated services for SOC monitoring and SOC staffing. Our team of highly trained specialists is proficient in the leading SOC tools, ensuring seamless integration and cost-effective security solutions tailored to your needs.
Cybersecurity and threats are terms that affect not just businesses but also people and their privacy. Now that we know what the subject is, let’s get into the actual part- its growth and effect amongst internet users. SOC trends for 2025 have evolved in sophistication based on these factors . A compiled and comprehensive report from CrowdStrike showed the following statistics:
30+ adversaries newly discovered and named,
The fastest recorded eCrime timed at 2 minutes and 7 seconds, and
75% increase in cloud intrusions.
Cybercriminals are after your information mainly to gain access to financial information and/or use personal information to extort something. In the business world, it’s usually the latter for financial gain. In 2024, there was a substantial increase in reports against cyberattacks made by businesses and MSPs which only shows an upward graph of how they’ll be demanded more in 2025.
Furthermore, SOC trends in the industry are predicted to create an uproar as it will be added as an extension to basic cybersecurity products.
Security Operation Center (SOC) Trends To Look Forward To In 2025
The future of Security Operations Centers (SOC) is evolving rapidly with advancements in automation, AI, and cybersecurity frameworks. Here are the key SOC trends in 2025:
Cloud Native SOC Services
Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response
AI and Automation
Zero Trust Architecture
Quantum Computing and SOC Integration
Proactive Threat Intelligence
Redefining Human Roles in SOC
Managed Detection Response
eXtended Detection and Response (XDR)
1.Cloud Native SOC Services
What is it?: Businesses are shifting their work and data to a more accessible and remote location like the cloud. With such a shift comes innovation in SOC trends to introduce and develop cloud-based SOC services.
Cloud-native SOC services offer an expansive service to monitor, detect, alert, and respond to unusual activities spotted on the cloud. These services concentrate on the scalability, accessibility, and security of distributed IT environments while ensuring vulnerability is minimized to zero.
Why Does It Matter in 2025?: The work environment has drastically changed, and moving forward, it will be more flexible, i.e., completely cloud-based, and communicated. With such a revelation, here are all the reasons why cloud-native SOC services matter in 2025.
Scalable For Small and Medium Enterprises: MSSPs looking to offer their services to small and medium enterprises are shifting toward offering this SOC service. They offer flexibility without compromising security when the range of data and personnel is under a controlled cloud.
Remote Management: As mentioned above, the remote environment of businesses urges MSSPs to offer secure and safe cloud management through SOCs.
2.Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response
What is it?:SOAR platforms are becoming a crucial part of SOC services. They define a definite path, protocol, and routine that helps engineers streamline their security processes efficiently.
Moreover, it effectively automates routine tasks and incident response, empowering human analysts to prioritize and tackle more complex and strategic activities.
Why Does It Matter in 2025?: SOAR is highly relevant in 2025 due to the evolving complexity and volume of cyber threats, as well as the growing demand for efficiency in SOCs.
Automation of incident responses: SOAR platforms are dedicated to simplifying tasks such as incident investigation, management, threat containment, and termination. With automation, more than half of manual tasks through every step are reduced.
Streamline operations: SOAR platforms implement diverse security tools and systems into a simplified ecosystem, streamlining operations and improving efficiency. By consolidating data and performing advanced threat analysis, they enhance an organization’s security posture, improving visibility and enabling effective threat detection and response.
3. AI and Automation
What is it?: As we know the prominence of artificial intelligence has entered every industry, including SOCs. AI has been part of SOC trends and is fully fledged to operate multiple tasks at a time.
Through machine learning and automation, SOC services are looking at an optimistic, efficient, and minimal manual error.
Why Does It Matter in 2025?: Organizations who have implemented AI and automation into their SOC services already reported seeing more than a 50% reduction in response times and improved threat mitigation.
AI technologies can scan through vast amounts of data and networks to derive information about various anomalies that need to be addressed and through automation, these anomalies can be mitigated efficiently, reducing delay at every step of the process.
3. Zero Trust Architecture
What is it?:Zero-Trust Architecture is highly being demanded within the MSSP industry turning into a SOC requirement ready to take centre stage.
This system assumes all networks to be hostile, enabling verification for every access made. It is designed to reduce the risk of data breaches and unauthorized access to sensitive data from known and unknown sources.
Why Does It Matter in 2025?: Threats don’t limit themselves to the size of an enterprise, they attack in every way possible. Zero-trust architecture, thus, becomes a crucial SOC tool that will help MSSPs assure their clients’ safety and security in the long run.
Constant verification: Threats can be internal and external. Continuous verification of users across all networks ensures all who access the system’s database are authorized users and free to use it.
Strengthen overall security: ZTA micro-segments the network which reduces the potential impact of breach. Since each segment acts independently, a breach is bound to not affect the entire network.
4.Quantum Computing and SOC Integration
What is it?: One of the most innovative approaches in the SOC industry is quantum computing and resistive security. A method developed with cryptography to disable attacks from quantum computers.
These systems use post-quantum algorithms that are resistant to the immense computational power of quantum machines, ensuring secure encryption, authentication, and data protection.
Why Does It Matter in 2025?: We can’t stress enough how hackers and attackers can go to any length to bring down an organization by accessing their sensitive information. In 2025, the growth of this system will grow in demand mostly from large enterprises.
Resistant Algorithms: Implementing quantum-resistant algorithms will become a key focus for SOCs, ensuring that encrypted data remains protected against the advanced capabilities of quantum computers. These algorithms are designed to safeguard sensitive information and prevent potential breaches in a post-quantum era.
What is it?:Proactive Threat Intelligence is a form of identifying threats through predictive insights. These are gathered and analyzed through sophisticated tools that are developed to mitigate real-time and quickly growing cyberattacks.
Why Does It Matter in 2025?: To act upon cyberthreats, SOC services enable advanced SOC monitoring that works as intelligent and proactive threat mitigation.
Real-time threat identification: 2025 is looking at evolving variants of cyberattacks that are more dubious to deal with. Through proactive threat intelligence, the system can scour cyberattacks, respond to it and offer immediate remediation. This act helps in ensuring organizational networks, systems and servers don’t end up in unexpected situations.
Proactive Threat Strategies: Considering the level of threats every organization deals with, having reactive measures can only do a little help. By having objectives that are sector-specific, SOC engineers can concentrate and customize their services accordingly.
7. Redefining Human Roles in SOC
What is it?: As cyberthreats evolve, AI and human analysts are foresighted to work side by work and not replace one over the other.
A future of streamlining, speeding and redefining the roles of human analysts in the SOC industry will shape their purpose in the coming years.
Why Does It Matter in 2025?: The evolution of AI and machine learning has brought the presumption that human analysts might get replaced but this is far from the truth.
Human analysts have the capabilities to offer their services higher level tasks and are often stuck with routine daily works. These repetitive works can be automated with AI while human analysts can take on more advanced tasks.
8. Managed Detection Response
What is it?:MDR basically assembles a team, apart from automation, to detect, analyze, and resolve any cyber threat on the network, endpoints, and systems.
Relying services solely on AI is not a matter of present or future, it is a constant requirement to have human assistance side by side.
Why Does It Matter in 2025?: MDR offers various benefits that take cybersecurity a long way.
24/7 monitoring and response: Managed security service providers and SOC engineers ensure your networks and systems are constantly watched for potential threats and respond to them immediately.
Bridging cybersecurity skill gaps: With the growing needs of cybersecurity, there are few professionals and engineers in the market. Rather than contemplating the skill gap, get them managed through MSPs who offer quality MDR services.
What is it?: XDRis gaining quite the popularity for its holistic approach to enabling cybersecurity. Extended Detection and Response is a system where endpoints, networks, servers, and devices are connected to a single platform.
As a whole, it helps in detecting, investigating, and narrowing down the source of threat in a unified manner.
Why Does It Matter in 2025?: There are multiple reasons why XDR is a growing SOC trend that will continue to evolve.
Unified threat management: Cyberthreats attack from every direction. Through XDR, a unified platform can smartly detect cyberthreats’ routes and mitigate them efficiently without having to run around to find the source.
Automation for alerts: SOC engineers are often hung up on regular and time-consuming regular tasks. Through EDR, these tasks get automated and alert fatigue can be resolved easily.
Secucenter’s Contribution To SOC Trends
As a budding SOC company, we are on the radar to onboard the latest innovation in our tools. We provide advanced SOC monitoring and SOC staffing to our clients who wish to add that extra layer of protection along with their current suite of cybersecurity.
In 2025, we forecast a vertical expansion of SOC trends with new tools in the industry to aid our customers with a strong wall of defense and ensure their safety through and through.
Frequently Asked Questions
1. How does AI impact SOC operations in 2025?
AI will streamline major and minor SOC operations making cybersecurity even more efficient and reliable. It enhances threat intelligence, finds threat pathways, provides intelligent threat response, and many more.
2. What challenges do businesses face in modern SOC technologies?
One of the main challenges in the skill gap that was discussed above. Apart from that, modern businesses find difficulty with high implementation costs, keeping track of technological changes, and the wariness of cyber threats wandering the digital world. These concerns can be tackled by utilizing managed service providers who offer cybersecurity such as us.
3. How do you choose the right SOC service provider?
Choosing the right SOC service provider involves evaluating their expertise in threat detection and response, 24/7 monitoring, and the use of advanced tools like AI and SOAR. Their experience with your industry, scalability, reporting transparency, compliance support, and ability to integrate with your existing security infrastructure effortlessly.
Fortinet issues warning on a new Zero-Day attack on Fortinet Fortigate firewall devices with management interfaces exposed to the public. The campaign began around mid-November 2024 by accessing management interfaces, creating new admin accounts, changing configurations, and bypassing SSL VPN for lateral movement. The threat actors are unknown and they have taken advantage of this vulnerability to extract credentials using DCSync.
For context, a Zero-Day is an unknown software vulnerability exploited by hackers to gain entry into vulnerable networks, servers, and systems. It is called Zero-Day because it occurs before an organization becomes aware of it, giving them zero days to address the issue.
The firmware devices that were impacted and still underway on recovery range between 7.0.14 and 7.0.16, which were released in February and October of 2024.
Fortinet has confirmed that the attacks came in four waves:
Scanning and reconnaissance.
Configuration changes (e.g., enabling new admin accounts).
Creating local user accounts with VPN access.
Credential extraction for lateral movement.
Currently, Fortinet has given their response to update their firmware and minimize public-facing interfaces for controlling future threats.
Simply put, a fault in a firewall was used to gain bigger access, create an entryway for hackers, and move deeper into their networks. As a SOC service provider, we’d agree no security is too much security. If you harbor confidential data that can put an entire organization or a chain of clients at risk, then having 24/7 SOC monitoring can save you potentially costly losses and lawsuits.
The mere thought that our personal information from a car company’s database can be spooky enough, let alone it happening eight hundred thousand times. However, this is the scenario of Volkswagen Group whose data breach and poor configuration of data resulted in the exposure of over 800,000 EV customer’s information.
According to Chaos Computer Club, the data remained in the publicly accessible platform for months. This breach showed the precise GPS location of its users and contact information. Volkswagen’s software subsidiary, Cariad, contained accurate personal data that was synced with Amazon’s cloud facility but poorly configured. This gap left a loophole for free access to private customer information. The vulnerable customers included ordinary people, high-profile executives, and government workers who faced malicious risks if not reported.
The pattern of data breaches is not limited to Volkswagen. Kia was also informed about a similar security flaw that could have compromised the personal information of millions. Ferrari, BMW, and Porsche are more brands that have come under intense public scrutiny due to their inadequate customer security systems.
This breach shed light on the reliability of data privacy in the automotive sector. As a SOC service provider, Secucenter finds the need to protect data and information across platforms and sectors with not just one but multiple cybersecurity shields.
