How Much Does It Cost to Build a SOC?

This excerpt explains the major cost drivers and operational considerations for building an in-house Security Operations Center (SOC)—including staffing, SIEM and services, cloud monitoring, threat intelligence, and vulnerability scanning—estimates multi-million-dollar annual budgets for fully staffed 24×7 SOCs, and recommends managed SOC/MDR approaches such as Arctic Wolf’s open-XDR-based MDR to reduce risk, fill detection gaps, and avoid the resource burden of an internal SOC.