Unit 42 SOC Assessment

The Unit 42 SOC Assessment combines our threat intelligence and SOC expertise to identify exposures on your attack surface as well as prepare you for potential threats based on your geography, industry, and more. This assessment will align your unique threat profile and recommended best practices to create a roadmap for SOC excellence that enhances your ability to detect and respond while empowering your business to thrive.

Unit 42 SOC Assessment Benefits

Define your unique threat landscape.
Discover and understand your expanding attack surface and establish a baseline of threats most likely to impact your business by collaborating with Unit 42 experts.

Transform your SecOps program.
Align your people, processes, and technology by assessing existing playbooks, security tools, and SOC structure against your unique threat landscape and apply cybersecurity best practices to improve your security operations.

Accelerate your customized SOC wellness journey.
Regardless of your cybersecurity maturity, apply your new knowledge and tailor-made roadmap to support your organization’s business goals and improve the detection and response capabilities of your SOC.

Unit 42 SOC Assessment Methodology

Unit 42 offers a threat-focused, proprietary methodology to help improve your SOC.

• Understand Your Requirements: Get a detailed understanding of your SOC’s operating model, overall environment, and requirements to tailor our engagement to your specific situation.
• Threat Posture Assessment: Align on threat actor groups targeting your organization and risk-rank their associated tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs).
• Attack Surface Discovery: Leverage Cortex Xpanse and Unit 42 expert-led workshops to map out your internal and external attack surface that requires protection.
• Attack Simulation: Simulate relevant adversarial behavior from the threat posture assessment on critical assets discovered during the attack surface discovery to test your defenses.
• Intel-led SOC Maturity Assessment: Evaluate your SOC against the proprietary framework of our Palo Alto Networks SOC and threat intelligence program, across people, process, and technology, to identify areas of improvement.
• Define Security Posture Improvements: Develop a detailed report including guidance on recommended and prioritized actions to mitigate your cybersecurity risk.

About Unit 42

Unit 42^® brings together our world-renowned threat researchers and hunters with an elite team of security consultants to create an intelligence-driven, response-ready organization. The Unit 42 Threat Intelligence team provides threat research that enables security teams to understand adversary intent and attribution while enhancing protections offered by our products and services to stop advanced attacks. As threats escalate, Unit 42 is available to advise customers on the latest risks, assess their readiness, and help them recover when the worst occurs. For the latest threat intel and research, please visit unit42.paloaltonetworks.com.