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3 SOC Challenges You Need to Solve Before 2026
2026 will mark a pivotal shift in cybersecurity. Threat actors are moving from experimenting with AI to making it their primary weapon, using it to scale attacks, automate reconnaissance, and craft hyper-realistic social engineering campaigns. The Storm on the Horizon Global world instability,...
Randomized Controlled Trials for Phishing Triage Agent
Security operations centers SOCs face a persistent challenge: efficiently triaging a high volume of user-reported phishing emails while maintaining robust protection against threats. This paper presents the first randomized controlled trial RCT evaluating the impact of a domain-specific AI agent ...
Why SOC Burnout Can Be Avoided: Practical Steps
Behind every alert is an analyst; tired eyes scanning dashboards, long nights spent on false positives, and the constant fear of missing something big. It's no surprise that many SOCs face burnout before they face their next breach. But this doesn't have to be the norm. The path out isn't through...
Learn what generative AI can do for your security operations center
The busier security teams get, the harder it can be to understand the full impact of false positives, queue clutter, tool fragmentation, and more. But what is clear—it all adds up to increased fatigue and an increased potential to miss the cyberthreats that matter most. To help security teams...
Why Early Threat Detection Is a Must for Long-Term Business Growth
In cybersecurity, speed isn't just a win — it's a multiplier. The faster you learn about emerging threats, the faster you adapt your defenses, the less damage you suffer, and the more confidently your business keeps scaling. Early threat detection isn't about preventing a breach someday: it's abo...
Microsoft named a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for SIEM
We’re honored to share that Microsoft has again been recognized as a Leader in the2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Security Information and Event Management SIEM.1 We believe this recognition reinforces Microsoft Sentinel's position as an industry-leading, cloud and AI-powered SIEM—designed to...
Microsoft raises the bar: A smarter way to measure AI for cybersecurity
ExCyTIn-Bench is Microsoft’s newest open-source benchmarking tool designed to evaluate how well AI systems perform real-world cybersecurity investigations.1 It helps business leaders assess language models by simulating realistic cyberthreat scenarios and providing clear, actionable insights into...
Stop Alert Chaos: Context Is the Key to Effective Incident Response
The Problem: Legacy SOCs and Endless Alert Noise Every SOC leader knows the feeling: hundreds of alerts pouring in, dashboards lighting up like a slot machine, analysts scrambling to keep pace. The harder they try to scale people or buy new tools, the faster the chaos multiplies. The problem is n...
The State of AI in the SOC 2025 - Insights from Recent Study
Security leaders are embracing AI for triage, detection engineering, and threat hunting as alert volumes and burnout hit breaking points. A comprehensive survey of 282 security leaders at companies across industries reveals a stark reality facing modern Security Operations Centers: alert volumes...
Collaborative Intelligence: Topic Modelling of Large Language Model Use in Live Cybersecurity Operations
Objective: This work describes the topic modelling of Security Operations Centre SOC use of a large language model LLM, during live security operations. The goal is to better understand how these specialists voluntarily use this tool. Background: Human-automation teams have been extensively...
AI SOC 101: Key Capabilities Security Leaders Need to Know
Security operations have never been a 9-to-5 job. For SOC analysts, the day often starts and ends deep in a queue of alerts, chasing down what turns out to be false positives, or switching between half a dozen tools to piece together context. The work is repetitive, time-consuming, and high-stake...
How Top CISOs Save Their SOCs from Alert Chaos to Never Miss Real Incidents
Why do SOC teams still drown in alerts even after spending big on security tools? False positives pile up, stealthy threats slip through, and critical incidents get buried in the noise. Top CISOs have realized the solution isn't adding more and more tools to SOC workflows but giving analysts the...
Microsoft is named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Security Analytics Platforms, 2025
What is a security operations center? Learn more ↗ Microsoft is proud to be named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Security Analytics Platforms, Q2 2025—which we believe reflects our deep investment in innovation and commitment to support security operations centers SOCs’s critical mission. This...
6 Steps to 24/7 In-House SOC Success
Hackers never sleep, so why should enterprise defenses? Threat actors prefer to target businesses during off-hours. That's when they can count on fewer security personnel monitoring systems, delaying response and remediation. When retail giant Marks & Spencer experienced a security event over...
Key Takeaways from the Take Command Summit 2025: Demystifying Cloud Detection & Response – The Future of SOC and MDR
Cloud adoption has fundamentally reshaped security operations, bringing flexibility and scalability, but also complexity. In this session from the Take Command 2025 Virtual Cybersecurity Summit, Rapid7’s product leaders discussed how today’s SOC and MDR capabilities must evolve to keep up. Hosted...
Towards AI-Driven Human-Machine Co-Teaming for Adaptive and Agile Cyber Security Operation Centers
Security Operations Centers SOCs face growing challenges in managing cybersecurity threats due to an overwhelming volume of alerts, a shortage of skilled analysts, and poorly integrated tools. Human-AI collaboration offers a promising path to augment the capabilities of SOC analysts while reducin...
Why top SOC teams are shifting to Network Detection and Response
Security Operations Center SOC teams are facing a fundamentally new challenge — traditional cybersecurity tools are failing to detect advanced adversaries who have become experts at evading endpoint-based defenses and signature-based detection systems. The reality of these “invisible intruders” i...
Hunters Announces New AI Capabilities with Pathfinder AI for Smarter SOC Automation
Boston and Tel Aviv, United States, 4th March 2025, CyberNewsWire...
Securing Success: Stories from the SOC Webinar Series
In today’s fast-paced threat landscape, SOC Security Operations Center teams are under relentless pressure. Cyberattacks are evolving, threat volumes are skyrocketing, and attackers are exploiting vulnerabilities faster than ever. To navigate these challenges, Rapid7 has launched the "Securing...
5 Ways Behavioral Analytics is Revolutionizing Incident Response
Behavioral analytics, long associated with threat detection i.e. UEBA or UBA, is experiencing a renaissance. Once primarily used to identify suspicious activity, it's now being reimagined as a powerful post-detection technology that enhances incident response processes. By leveraging behavioral...