# What is a SOC (security operations centre)?

A SOC (security operations centre) is a team, and the tools it uses, that watches an organisation's security alerts, investigates them and responds to incidents, often around the clock. Large companies run their own. Most small and mid-sized companies cannot staff one, so they either buy the service from a managed security provider or rely on one or two IT people who look at alerts during working hours. Whichever model you have, the tools should produce few alerts that a person can act on. NetSenX does not provide a SOC service; it gives your team or your provider the network alerts and their context.

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