Companies can no longer afford to rely on simple management of firewalls and antivirus software. Cybercriminals now have access to much more sophisticated technology that can easily take down companies that don’t have proper tools in place. This is where a SOC, or Security Operations Center, comes in. A SOC are people (we call it eyes on glass) or a platform that conducts 24/7 analysis of threats using logs from multiple systems, including firewalls, desktops, laptops, servers, and cloud-based solutions like Office 365.