As with any organizational unit that must be agile and responsive to rapidly changing conditions, SOCs must have sufficient authority to perform its legitimate duties in order to be fully effective. In this strategy Zimmerman explains the types of written and inherited authority that a SOC should have in order to complete its mission successfully (2014).
___________________________________
References:
Zimmerman, C. (2014). Ten Strategies of a World-Class Cybersecurity Operations Center. The Mitre Corporation.