Managed SOC for a grid operator: continuous security operations without an in-house security team
How a grid operator with 350 employees achieves continuous security operations without its own SOC. Approach, timeline, technology, measures.
We monitor your IT with Google Security Operations, Google Threat Intelligence and Gemini – available around the clock on request. That way you spot attacks earlier, respond faster and have the information you need for a NIS2 notification at hand.
A Security Operations Center (SOC) continuously monitors a company's IT for attacks, assesses alerts and initiates countermeasures. GMinds runs your SOC as a managed service on Google Security Operations (Google SecOps) – with SIEM, SOAR, Google Threat Intelligence and AI agents based on Gemini. You get detection and response from a single source, without building a round-the-clock team yourself.
The German NIS2 Implementation Act has been in force since 6 December 2025. Significant security incidents must be reported to the BSI within 24 hours (according to the BSI) – only possible if you detect attacks quickly.
Firewalls, endpoints, cloud and email generate countless alerts every day. Without central analysis, real attacks get lost in the noise.
For most mid-sized companies, a dedicated round-the-clock team is neither affordable nor possible to staff.
All security-relevant logs in one place, searchable in seconds and retained for a long time.
Automated workflows for recurring cases: enrich an alert, lock an account, isolate a device – after an agreed approval.
Threat knowledge from Mandiant engagements and VirusTotal, directly in detection.
Agents pre-assess alerts, investigate incidents and hunt for specific attack patterns. A person makes the decisions.
We assess critical alerts and get in touch as soon as you need to act. Monitoring is also available around the clock on request.
Timeline, affected systems and evidence – prepared for your notification to the BSI.
Logs from the cloud, Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace, firewalls and endpoints flow into Google SecOps.
Rules, threat intelligence and AI agents find anomalies and prioritize them.
We investigate the case and initiate agreed measures, automatically or after approval.
You receive a report; we sharpen rules and workflows.
Under Section 32 of the BSI Act, significant security incidents are subject to a three-stage reporting procedure. Your SOC provides the information for it.
What happened – is an attack suspected?
Your SOC provides: time of detection, initial assessment, affected systems.
Severity, impact, indicators of compromise.
Your SOC provides: investigation results and indicators.
Cause, type of threat, measures.
Your SOC provides: complete timeline and report.
The notification itself remains your company's obligation. We support you with the information you need.
More on NIS2 and the CRA →Google SecOps comes with AI agents that pre-assess alerts, prepare investigations and proactively hunt for attack patterns. This noticeably shortens the time from alert to decision. With us, a person always decides which measure is taken. Some agents are still in preview at Google or only available in certain editions (according to Google's release notes).
We clarify risks, important systems and which sources to connect.
We connect the sources, set up rules and workflows and test them with you.
We monitor continuously – around the clock on request – report regularly and keep improving.
How a grid operator with 350 employees achieves continuous security operations without its own SOC. Approach, timeline, technology, measures.
We review your environment read-only and show you in a results report where to start – free of charge and without obligation.
