Today’s threat landscape operates around the clock. Attackers don’t work office hours, and neither do the threats they unleash. From ransomware to data exfiltration, organisations are under pressure to detect, respond to, and recover from incidents in real time. 

The challenge? Many businesses still rely on fragmented security controls, under-resourced teams, and monitoring models that weren’t designed to operate 24/7. That’s where the concept of a Hybrid Security Operations Centre (SOC) comes in, offering a practical, scalable path to always-on threat visibility that leverages external expertise while retaining complete control.

This blog offers a quick technical check to help you assess whether your business is truly equipped for continuous protection and where a Hybrid SOC model could step in and help strengthen your posture.

The Readiness Test: Are You Covered?

Use the checkpoints below to assess how prepared your organisation is for today’s constant threat landscape. If any of these areas feel uncertain or underdeveloped, it may be time to explore how a Hybrid SOC can help strengthen your overall posture.

1. Do you have consistent, real-time visibility into threats 24/7?
   Cyber threats often strike outside core business hours. If your environment isn’t monitored continuously (including nights, weekends, and public holidays) you may be exposed when coverage is needed most. Around-the-clock visibility is now a baseline requirement for reducing dwell time and containing risk.
2. Are you comfortable with how incidents are triaged and escalated?
   Alert fatigue is a growing challenge. Without structured triage processes and clearly defined escalation paths, it’s easy for high-priority issues to be missed or delayed. A well-supported response function of managed detection and response brings clarity, speed, and confidence to incident handling, especially when workloads are high.
3. Is threat intelligence part of your day-to-day decision-making?
   Threat actors are constantly evolving their tactics. Relying on static or surface-level insights can leave critical blind spots. Real-time threat intelligence, tailored to your environment and industry, enhances detection and supports a more proactive defence.
4. Do you feel confident meeting compliance and reporting needs?
   Regulatory frameworks like Essential Eight and ISO 27001 require demonstrable control over logging, response, and reporting. If your logs are fragmented or reports are manually compiled, you may struggle to maintain audit readiness. Centralised, structured reporting builds trust and reduces audit fatigue.
5. Have you recently tested your team’s incident response strategy?
   Even the best response plans need validation. Regular testing, from tabletop exercises to technical simulations, ensures your processes work in practice, not just on paper. It also helps identify gaps and reinforce roles before a real incident occurs.

Why 24/7 Readiness Requires a Hybrid Approach

Even organisations with strong internal IT teams struggle to maintain continuous vigilance. Hiring and retaining security talent is difficult. Building a SOC from scratch is costly and resource-intensive and fully outsourcing often creates a disconnect between your business and your security posture.

A Hybrid SOC offers a more balanced model, one that combines:

• Around-the-clock monitoring by a dedicated team of trusted analysts
• Co-managed visibility, keeping your team in the loop
• Automated response frameworks aligned and tailored to your environment
• Threat intelligence integration from trusted global and local sources
• Compliance-ready reporting for audit confidence.

A hybrid SOC approach isn’t outsourcing, It’s about extending your team with the support and tooling required to mature your posture, without losing control.

What a Hybrid SOC Looks Like in Practice

Technically, a Hybrid SOC operates as an extension of your internal team. It integrates with your environment via SIEM or XDR tooling and provides full-spectrum support including:

• Log aggregation and analysis
• Real-time threat detection and triage
• Defined escalation procedures
• Threat intelligence correlation
• Incident response playbook execution
• Monthly reporting and dashboarding
• Regular review and improvement loops

This model ensures you’re not just catching threats  but learning from them, adapting, and continuously strengthening your cyber defence solutions.

Ready to Benchmark Your Security Maturity?

If you’re unsure how your business would respond to a middle of the night breach, it’s time to check. Not with a spreadsheet, but with a structured, expert led assessment.

Cube Cyber is your trusted Australian cybersecurity partner, delivering enterprise grade protection through a locally operated, expert led Hybrid SOC. Our co-managed model provides 24/7 visibility, real time incident response, and high touch advisory, run entirely from our sovereign facility in Brisbane by local analysts who understand your environment.

At the core of our operations is Tesseract, a proprietary in house platform that brings together advanced threat intelligence, automation, and incident response, giving you tailored, scalable protection that scales with your business. 

Book your Security Assessment with our trusted local SOC experts today and evaluate your current threat readiness and identify practical areas for improvement.

Yet despite this reality, many businesses are still trying to carry the entire weight of cyber defence solutions internally, often with lean IT teams, limited budgets, and overworked security leads. It is a model that no longer scales. And increasingly, it is a model that introduces more risk than it removes.

That is where co-managed security, particularly through a Hybrid Security Operations Centre (SOC), emerges not just as a workaround but as a smarter, future ready approach to protecting your organisation.

The Limits of Traditional Security Models

Historically, organisations have faced a binary choice: either build an in-house SOC or outsource security entirely to a Managed Security Services Provider (MSSP). Both approaches come with trade-offs.

In-house teams offer control and context but often lack the scale, tooling, or around the clock coverage needed to keep pace with today’s threat landscape. Outsourced providers, while offering coverage and scale, may operate with limited visibility into your environment and without the high-touch collaboration your business needs.

This either scenario often leaves mid-sized organisations stuck, big enough to need robust security, but without the budget or appetite to go all in on a fully staffed SOC or a third party.

Co-Managed Security: A Middle Path with Maximum Impact

A co-managed model breaks this binary thinking. It enables your internal team to retain control and visibility while extending your capacity, capability, and coverage with expert external support for managed detection and response.

In practical terms, this means your organisation can leverage a Hybrid SOC model that operates in tandem with your internal resources. You gain access to a fully staffed team of security analysts, real time advanced threat detection, advanced tooling, and a structured response framework, all while staying involved and informed.

The result is that your team can focus on high priority IT initiatives, strategic planning, and decision making, rather than drowning in alerts or scrambling during cyber defence incidents.

Key Benefits of a Co-Managed SOC Approach

1. Around the Clock ‘ Active Monitoring and Incident Response’ Without the Overhead: Building a team to monitor threats 24/7 is not just expensive, it is also difficult to retain talent in such a competitive space. A Hybrid SOC gives you constant coverage from experienced analysts, often for a fraction of the cost of what it would cost to build and maintain the capability-in house. 
2. Greater Control, Shared Responsibility: Unlike full outsourcing, co-managed models allow you to stay in the loop. You retain visibility into incidents, have input into escalation paths, and can align operations with internal policies and risk appetite.
3. Improved Incident Response Times: With a Hybrid SOC continuously monitoring your environment, threat detection and triage happens in real time. This reduces dwell time and minimises potential damage from breaches or misconfigurations.
4. Enhanced Compliance and Reporting: For many industries, regulatory compliance is no longer optional. Co-managed security offers structured processes and audit ready reporting to support compliance with frameworks like Essential Eight, ISO 27001, or industry specific mandates.
5. Reduced Third-Party Risk Through ISO 27001 Certified Partnerships: Partnering with an ISO 27001 certified provider gives you confidence that security controls are comprehensive, auditable, and aligned with global standards; reducing risk, simplifying compliance, and strengthening your overall posture.
6. Security That Scales with You: As your business evolves, your security needs shift. A co-managed SOC scales alongside your operations, offering flexibility to grow without rearchitecting your entire security model.

Why Cube Cyber

Cube Cyber is your trusted Australian cybersecurity partner, delivering enterprise grade protection through a locally operated, expert led Hybrid SOC.

Built for organisations operating in regulated or high risk sectors, our co-managed model combines 24/7 monitoring, real time incident response, and high touch advisory, delivered entirely from our sovereign facility in Brisbane.

We don’t outsource. Our SOC is staffed by local analysts and engineers who work directly with your systems, policies, and people. We know your environment, which means faster, more accurate response and a more collaborative security partnership.

With a focus on practical, scalable protection, our SOC is built on industry leading security technologies, all integrated through Tesseract, our proprietary in house platform. Developed locally by our team, Tesseract brings together threat intelligence, automation, and incident response to deliver tailored protection that evolves with your organisation.

Book your Security Assessment with our Local SOC experts today.

A one hour session designed to evaluate your current threat readiness and uncover practical ways to strengthen your security posture.