Security Operations Centre (SOC)

The objectives of the SOC, within the Information Security & Governance Department, are:

• To monitor information security continuously, ensuring real-time visibility in the Agency’s threat landscape and security posture while proactively and iteratively hunting for emerging threats
• To identify new tools and technologies to improve detection and response capabilities while optimising and maintaining existing tools
• To maintain a Government of Malta computer security incident response function to capture and share threat intelligence and information with local and foreign Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT)/ Computer Security Incident Response Team (CSIRT) bodies
• To enact information security incident management and information security incident simulations
• To diligently and discretely execute information security investigations as requested by authorised data owners, law enforcement agencies, auditing and investigation entities