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Now after my third cup of coffee this morning — and you better believe that’s when the serious thinking starts — I’d like to humbly offer up a few hard-won lessons from thirty years in the IT and cybersecurity trenches. I’ve been a network admin and sysadmin of some flavor or another since ’93 and ran everything from plain mux setups for voice and data over PSTN to Slammer hand-to-hand (or byte-to-byte) back in the day. Oh, have things changed since.
Fast forward: Nowadays I own PJ Networks, a company that focuses on Managed NOC and SOC products, advanced firewalls, servers and routers, with the cyber-security priority always in mind. I just returned from DefCon’s hardware hacking village and am still shaking from it – and, honestly, what I continue to find is that IT security infrastructures are becoming more complex. If you’re trying to do it all in-house and you already feel like you’re drowning, you need to read today’s post.
Here’s the thing: IT was easier back when I was a beginner. You had your routers, switches, a little voice and data and some basic firewall rules. Now — wow — it’s a battlefield with hundreds of devices, cloud workloads, mobile users, zero-trust architectures and advanced persistent threats. And they are not random threats, not at all — state actors, cybercriminal organizations, opportunist hackers — all of them are there, waiting, poking at your defenses every minute of every day.
This complexity gives new meaning to “keeping the lights on” for your IT ops and security teams—they’re now running just to keep up, to comprehend new attack vectors and get intelligent solutions into place. It’s stressful even for the most experienced network admin (me included).
When a company starts to expand its media and digital capabilities, the decision to hire a new person to fill the unfamiliar role often comes up.
Nothing like pride in the in-house team, right? The fact that you have boots on the ground, face to face, direct communication, immediate response. In theory, it sounds great. In practice? It often means:
— A diversion from the main business targets. Your internal teams are getting attention so misguided, they’ll find themselves putting out fires all day long instead of having a chance to worry about strategy or innovation.
Based on my experience, it feels a bit like trying to keep an old school carburetor engine running with replacement parts from a modern fuel injection system: you can make it work, but at what cost and efficiency?
Here is where outsourcing your NOC (Network Operations Center) and SOC (Security Operations Center) really begins to make sense. And yes, I mean outsourcing — not only because of cost cutting, but for leverage and resilience. Here’s why:
We’re your extended team (not some black-box vendor). We plug into what is around us: your technology stack, your way of doing things, your objectives. We don’t just watch — we actively hunt threats, review logs, and act decisively based on deep expertise developed over decades spent fighting actual attacks.
Listen, if you’re thinking outsourcing is an added cost, I understand it. You could be trapped in the old school CAPEX vs OPEX thinking. But the reality is different:
Ironically, I have clients who used to complain about outsourcing who they now spend a lot less on IT overall and get much better security results. That’s the sweet spot for us, especially after we just successfully helped three banks migrate to zero-trust architecture with not one hiccup.
Here’s a bit of a pet peeve. Everybody’s piping up with AI-boost security solutions these days. And I’m skeptical of those buzzwords — AI is not magic, it’s a tool, and if you don’t have the right human brains behind it, it can be worse than useless, even dangerous.
What makes PJ Networks different is a combination of human expertise and powerful technology – including the Fortinet line-up that we rely on every day.
Fortinet helps us deliver:
This combination allows you to stay ahead of bad actors — not simply in response to an attack, but in anticipating one. My point? When you come to us, you’re not just purchasing a SOC, but a well-oiled machine with years of experience and solid tech behind it.
We don’t do the “here’s your box, now good luck” deal. At PJ Networks, clients are partners. When I speak to customers (or return from a whirlwind DefCon visit) I tell them straight up: the cybersecurity world is not going to magically become simpler. Your threat environment will become more complex. So your approach must evolve as well.
Outsourcing with us means:
Here’s the crux. It doesn’t mean your team is not skilled if you are unable to manage NOC & SOC in-house. It’s because the asks are, frankly, border-line, unsustainable. That outsourcing is a smart, strategic choice—one that allows you put your talent to work on what they do best, while putting the heavy lifting of day-to-day monitoring and incident response in the hands of people who do it all day, every day.
I’ll leave you with this: do you remember the Slammer Worm in the early 2000s? I was there, sweating through patch management – and I’m here to tell you, with the kind of threat intelligence and 24/7 managed services we have today, that nightmare would have been far less painful.
If you’d like to talk over how PJ Networks can help your business flourish — and to let you sleep better at night — give me a shout. We’ll get your NOC and SOC humming so you can concentrate on building your business, not just protecting it.
Bottom line: Your cybersecurity isn’t a side dish — it’s the main course. How crazy-eyed teams serve yesterday’s leftovers. Allow PJ Networks to cater you with a meal of resilience and security.
Cheers from my desk,
Sanjay Seth
PJ Networks Pvt Ltd
