This comparison gets asked in both directions — MDR vs SOC as a service, SOCaaS vs MDR — and the honest answer starts with an admission: the two names describe overlapping services sold with deliberately blurry edges. Both give you people watching for attacks around the clock. What differs is scope, tooling ownership and who
Search for SOC as a service pricing in India and most of what comes back is American: per-endpoint dollars, per-user tiers, calculators built for a different market. The rupee numbers are scarce for a reason — the two figures that determine the price of a SOC (security operations centre) service are how much log data
The build-versus-buy question for a SOC (security operations centre) usually gets answered with adjectives — control, expertise, focus. It deserves arithmetic instead, because the economics of security monitoring are dominated by one stubborn number: what it takes to keep even a single analyst chair staffed around the clock. This page works that number out for
