As the Internet grows every day, the computerization of corporate business grows in parallel, with the associated critical issues related to data management and security: companies and corporations want to protect themselves from any business discontinuity phenomenon. This is why SOCs, Security Operations Centers, were born.

Security Operations Centers are control rooms that aim to increase data security through 24/7 real-time monitoring of information systems traffic. Just like the control towers that oversee the flow of aircraft or the more futuristic ones where space mission launches are tracked, SOCs manage the transit of digital data. Those working within SOCs aim to immediately analyze, detect, identify and respond to critical issues, reducing the time between threat detection and system compromise.

They share with data centers, which house mainly hardware-servers, cooling systems, connectivity solutions-the rules of security and access control: they are to all intents and purposes bunkers, places designed to be inaccessible to anyone who is not authorized. But, unlike data centers, they also require careful design to meet the needs of super-technicians who must operate in a comfortable environment, without neglecting aspects such as space optimization and energy savings.

A specific type of these spaces are C-SOCs, true centers of excellence in next-generation Cyber Security, whose mission is to guard against and repel cyber attacks, to which corporate businesses are particularly exposed.

The design of a technological building imposes a series of constraints and demands aimed at functional standards, energy efficiency, safety, optimization of technological and infrastructural systems. One might think that technical priorities come at the expense of the creative side of the architectural concept, thus limiting design freedom. In reality, it is precisely from these assumptions that the conditions are created for complex and fruitful challenges, the same ones that have led In-Site to the design of futuristic spaces that house, in an almost symbiotic union, humans and machines. What distinguishes In-Site in the European landscape is the sensitivity as well as the search for innovative and tailored solutions that integrate the universe of engineering disciplines within a virtuous, sustainable and human-centered process.

Design skills are matched with the management skills of all actors involved in the construction supply chain: In-Site is able to act as General Contractor, guaranteeing the economic and time sizing of the entire work. In-Site thus offers an integrated service typical of large corporations, but with the added value typical of a flexible, dynamic and resource-optimized structure.

The first experience with this approach dates as far back as 2007, when In-Site built BT Italia's SOC, in Settimo Milanese. In record time, just three months, keeping costs under control and using the most advanced and sophisticated technologies, In-Site concluded the complex intervention guaranteeing safety, energy continuity, sustainability. And of course comfort, achieved in part through careful psychological studies of well-being.

A more recent example is BlueIT's SOCin Monza. Open to customer visits, the control room is armored but visible from the outside thanks to a refined architectural solution, a large screenable photographic lens. The designers also focused on defining a space with a domestic atmosphere organized under the banner of flexibility, which can be subdivided as needed by a movable wall and equipped with a retractable kitchen, custom-made furniture, and a bathroom with a shower and dressing room.