You are the Chief Information Security Officer $($CISO$)$ at a large corporation. Your company is expanding rapidly and the complexity of managing security across different business functions is increasing.

You need a dedicated team to monitor and protect critical information assets across the organization.

Which of the following would be the MOST effective solution?

Implementing a new security policy

Hiring more IT staff

Outsourcing security to a third$-$party vendor

Establishing a Security Operations Center $($SOC$)$