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Dr. Erdal Ozkaya
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Dr. Erdal Ozkaya

Dr. Erdal Ozkaya is named among the Top 50 Technology Leaders by CIO Online & IDC. He is a Chief Cybersecurity Strategist and CISO at Xcitium (Comodo Cybersecurity), and a professor at Charles Sturt University. His expertise spans end-to-end IT solutions, management, communications, and innovation. He’s a well-known public speaker, an award-winning technical expert, author, and creator of certifications (courseware and exams) for prestigious organizations such as Microsoft, EC Council, CertNexus, and other expert-level vendors with an esteemed list of credits to his name. He is working with an ardent passion for raising cyber awareness and leveraging new, innovative approaches.
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Security operations and continuous monitoring

Security monitoring is an integral process in cybersecurity. Security monitoring provides any organization with the ability to detect and analyze events from the enterprise network, applications, endpoints, and user activities. Typically, security operations and continuous monitoring (SOC) has three elements: people, process, and technology.

Technology helps drive the monitoring of assets, such as networks, applications, endpoints, servers, web applications, and generates alerts by automatic correlation and analysis:

A photo from a Microsoft SOC

The people component in SOC focuses on validating these alerts manually and categorizing them.

The process component is all about analyzing the alerts/logs and either identifies a threat and provides detailed information to the remediation team or marks it as false positive:

SOC also has...

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Dr. Erdal Ozkaya

Dr. Erdal Ozkaya is named among the Top 50 Technology Leaders by CIO Online & IDC. He is a Chief Cybersecurity Strategist and CISO at Xcitium (Comodo Cybersecurity), and a professor at Charles Sturt University. His expertise spans end-to-end IT solutions, management, communications, and innovation. He’s a well-known public speaker, an award-winning technical expert, author, and creator of certifications (courseware and exams) for prestigious organizations such as Microsoft, EC Council, CertNexus, and other expert-level vendors with an esteemed list of credits to his name. He is working with an ardent passion for raising cyber awareness and leveraging new, innovative approaches.
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