Designing a Cyber Security Operations Center (CSOC)

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Timeline
  • February 28, 2023
    Experience start
  • April 12, 2023
    Experience end
Experience
3/6 project matches
Dates set by experience
Preferred Community Partners
Anywhere
Any
Any industries

Experience scope

Categories
Security (cybersecurity and IT security) Information technology Networking
Skills
cyber operations certification structure oversight committee (csoc) progress reporting cyber security project planning event management communication project schedules online communication requirements elicitation
Student goals and capabilities

In-class project Opportunity in Cyber Security Operations: Bring on students from York University from the Cybersecurity Operations program to assist you with a potential real-life challenge in Cybersecurity, in a project-based experience.

Students will design a comprehensive Cyber Security Operation Center (CSOC) with a unified design that will be customized according to the client’s needs. The project will comprise three main stages; requirements elicitation and analysis, design and architecture, and presentation and recommendations.

Students will work on cybersecurity projects over the course period, connecting with you as needed with virtual communication tools. Students are available for 39 hours of placement from February 28th to April 11th 2023.

Students

Students
Continuing Education
Any level
47 students
Project
39 hours per student
Students self-assign
Teams of 12
Expected outcomes and deliverables

Students will need to complete the following tasks to achieve the project goal:

  1. Students are expected to submit the selected engagement for the course, their group, a brief description of the project they will be working on, and a high-level project schedule, all of which will be acknowledged by the client (client acknowledgment required in the form of email confirmation)
  2. Students will submit a progress report every two weeks to both the client and the course instructor highlighting progress to date, key milestones achieved during the reporting period, key risks identified during the reporting period, key issues identified during the reporting period, and potential issues – if applicable.
  3. Students will submit a detailed project report summarizing the success of the engagement, challenges faced, how they overcame obstacles, key learnings, and recommended next steps for the client so they can enhance and build upon the deliverables of the engagement.

At the end of this project, you will receive one major deliverable consisting of:

  • CSOC Overall Technology Design
  • CSOC People Requirements, Organizational Structure, and Management
  • CSOC Processes for Event Management, CSOC Engineering, Change Management, Incident Management, and Threat Use Case Management

How will you as the client support students in completing the project?

You must assign a responsible Single Point Of Contact (SPOC) for communication between the student group and organization. The SPOC will be responsible for joining weekly meetings with the project group and providing input and feedback. You must review and approve all deliverables within two business days and review and acknowledge all progress reports that students will provide.



Project timeline
  • February 28, 2023
    Experience start
  • April 12, 2023
    Experience end

Project examples

The main goal of this project is for students to design an end-to-end Cyber Security Operations Center (CSOC) for clients to help them build cyber detection and defense capabilities to detect, prevent and combat undesirable events. By working on this project, students will demonstrate sound project management skills by building engagement schedules and working with defined teams with set deadlines.

The main areas covered in the project will be as follows:

  • CSOC Overall Technology Design
  • CSOC People Requirements, Organizational Structure, and Management
  • CSOC Processes for Event Management, CSOC Engineering, Change Management, Incident Management, and Threat Use Case Management

The Students will use technologies related to documenting the engagement (e.g., Microsoft Powerpoint, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, etc.) and any specific tools used for data analysis (e.g., Microstrategy, if applicable)

Additional Community Partner criteria

Community Partners must answer the following questions to submit a match request to this experience:

  • Q1 - Text short
    Do you currently have a Cybersecurity team, and are you running a Cybersecurity Operations Center (CSOC)?
  • Q2 - Text short
    Are you looking to build a CSOC or enable CSOC operations soon?
  • Q3 - Text short
    Do you need key processes within the CSOC? Are you leveraging the right technologies for the CSOC?
  • Q4 - Text short
    Do you have the right people management setup in the CSOC?