Security operations centre (SOC)
A SOC tailored for tertiary education and research
Our security operations centre (SOC) is designed specifically for universities, colleges, and research organisations.
It acts as your institution’s security command centre, continuously monitoring your network, detecting threats, and responding to incidents.
Protecting the sector
We have worked closely with the education and research sector for 35 years – we know its challenges and we’ve built the SOC using our own expertise and the best of the commercial sector to protect it better than any commercial competitors could on their own.
Securing your organisation
Why our SOC is the best option for education and research.
- Proactive protection and rapid response: our CSIRT team manages detection, containment, isolation, forensics, and recovery guidance to keep incidents controlled and disruption minimal
- Threat intelligence beyond education: built for education but powered by global intelligence partnerships, our SOC delivers detection and prevention capabilities on par with top commercial providers
- Continuous hardening and improvement: unlike providers who only patch specific issues, our specialists assess your wider infrastructure and work with you to strengthen systemic weaknesses
Better value through us
As a not-for-profit organisation, we can help you save and get full transparency on costs.
- Exceptional value for money: our SOC includes capabilities often sold as add‑ons by commercial providers, and our vendor partnerships deliver best‑in‑class solutions at lower cost.
- Partnerships and negotiated value: through partnerships with leading cyber security firms like CrowdStrike, we secure better tools and pricing for the sector and integrate them into a cohesive defence system.
Part of a wider, more secure community
The Janet Network provides better, faster security and our community and training helps you improve cyber posture.
- Powered by the Janet Network: the UK’s most secure, high‑capacity education and research network blocks, contains, and neutralises threats upstream before they reach your firewalls
- Community intelligence and sector collaboration: seminars, advisory services, and tailored guidance help IT and security teams adopt best practice and build stronger defences
Steps to SOC readiness
Professional accreditations
“This is more than just a service; it’s a commitment to a safer digital future. By providing advanced threat detection and response capabilities, we’re empowering our community to innovate with confidence.”
David Batho, director of security, Jisc
Industry-leading technology
We work with leading security providers – Splunk, Microsoft Defender and CrowdStrike – to bring you the best tools for monitoring, detection and threat response.
Secure your organisation
Contact your relationship manager now to learn more and get started.
Service eligibility
Further education, higher education and research member organisations and research customers.
A Janet IP connection and having a compatible XDR in place (Microsoft Defender A5 or Crowdstrike) is a pre-requisite for the service.
Crown Commercial Service Supplier
Jisc is an approved supplier on the Government Commercial Agency G-Cloud framework and Cyber Security 3 dynamic purchasing system (DPS).
Visit the Government Commercial Agency website for more information and guidance on how to purchase G-Cloud 14 and Cyber Security Services 3.
ISO accreditation
This service is included within the scope of our ISO9001 and ISO27001 certificates. Read more about International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO) standards and view Jisc certificates.
