There are many of projects targeted at building a Security Operations Center (SOC). A SOC helps centrally monitor and control all your security elements and policy. It consists of a technical platform and an organizational team with security focus. The following diagram depicts the processes and activities inside and outside a SOC.
At China, it’s an honour to me to lead the team to design and build up the first SOC for a province mobile company at 2002. Thereafter, more and more SOC projects, especially at province companies of China Mobile, emerged. Security Command Center (CA), eSecurity, Arcsight, netForensics, Intellitactics, and other products from Micromuse, NetIQ, and even IBM and Symantec, began to fight against to each other.
Most of local security vendors choose the way to introduce those foreign SIM products into their own SOC solutions, as the bottom layer to collect and correlate security events/incidents, e.g. Lenovo and Topsec from ArcSight, iS-One from eSecurity, BOCO from netForensics, and so on. while Venustech is re-evaluating among those products after a period of time touching with Arcsight. For more information about those local security companies in China, please refer to my previous post.

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China Telecom Evolvement for Ten Years
October 18, 20051994 is a special year for telecom enterprises at China. Before that year, telecom is a function of the state government, no commercial services and operations. At that year, China Telecom was split off into an enterprise to provide all-telecom-services to the whole country. And at that year, China Unicom was founded to lead in market competition.
2nd year of milestone is 1997. At that year, China Telecom was further split into two parts: China Posts and China Telecom. And at that year, I graduated from Peking University and began to work for China Telecom, Data Communiction Bureau (DCB).
3rd year worthy of attention is 1999, when China Mobile was spin off to a stand alone company. Telecom industry entered into a new era. (BTW, I left DCB at 2000 to find my fortune).
4th year to be mentioned is 2002, when China Telecom was further splitted into two parts: China Netcom (10 provinces at north china) and China Telecom (21 provinces at South China). (Right click to “view image” to see the clearer picture)