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 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
To establish and maintain a single point of contact for Information Security Events across the Government of Malta;
To design, tune, optimize and build security detection controls and mechanisms to detect the constantly evolving cyberthreats through the study of adversary behaviours
To support the govmtCSIRT function by leading efforts in incident management and response.