Towards optimum security operation centre with fair bandwidth allocation

Abstract

Confidential and reliable information delivery is considered as one of the essential requirements that must be available in every area of life. The effective design as well as the implementation of efficient tools for bandwidth monitoring and control helps a lot in achieving the above mention availability requirements. The focus of this research mainly into two parts. The first part is to do an extensive survey on the effective design approaches for Security operation centre (SOC) in addition to investigating the suitable alternatives for different enterprise networks according to the nature of the owner (i.e. SOC for Bank is totally different for SOC for university campus). This part deals with knowledge of the basic steps that must be followed to design secret operations centres via personal interviews (questionnaire interview) which has been collected from a number of institutions that have computer networks. The second part concentrates on bandwidth management specifically the usage control so as to target the security threats that attacks the internet link which directly affect the availability specifically and deteriorate the performance as general. This part aims to maintain fair allocation of bandwidth not only among users only but also among the branches of the enterprise network. Survey results shows the optimal design of security operation centre according to the organizational needs, as well as set of recommendations for securing the data centres in more details according the experience transfer via the interviews. Moreover the results of the implementation of the fair allocation of bandwidth, proofs the effective utilization of bandwidth, fair allocation, and prevention from the attackers that aim to overwhelm the internet link with huge traffic that may leads to performance degradation.