The shift to the cloud has greatly accelerated during the past year, and with that shift most cybersecurity incidents now involve cloud infrastructure. According to the 2021 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report, 73% of cybersecurity incidents involved cloud assets — a 27% increase from last year. The 2021 IBM Security X-Force Cloud Threat Landscape Report also found there are 30,000 cloud accounts potentially for sale on dark web marketplaces.

In December 2019, a small team met at the Splunk office in Boulder to figure out how we could provide a 24x7x365 experience for Boss of the SOC (BOTS). As we started brainstorming, this broadened to include workshops to provide an opportunity to learn in addition to a place to play.

Operating an effective SOC requires overcoming a wide range of challenges. Often, security teams have too many disparate tools to manage, too many alerts to make sense of, and too many data sources that prevent the team from achieving full visibility. All these hurdles can make it difficult for your SOC analysts to identify and quickly respond to suspicious behavior and indicators of compromise.

SOC analysts are the unsung heroes of their organizations. That’s why Devo is celebrating the first-ever SOC Analyst Appreciation Day™ to pay some long-overdue kudos to these individuals. As part of giving SOC analysts the recognition they deserve, we also established an inaugural SOC Analyst Awards program. The awards recognize analysts who go far beyond the call of duty and handle their pressure-packed jobs exceptionally well.