Can SOC Operators Explain Their Decisions While Triaging Alarms? A Real-World Study

Security Operations Centers SOCs are pivotal in modern enterprises. Tasked to monitor complex network environments constantly under attack, SOCs can be active 24/7 and can include hundreds of operators supported by state-of-the-art technologies. Abundant research has studied the internal processe...

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Your MTTD Looks Great. Your Post-Alert Gap Doesn't

Anthropic restricted its Mythos Preview model last week after it autonomously found and exploited zero-day vulnerabilities in every major operating system and browser. Palo Alto Networks' Wendi Whitmore warned that similar capabilities are weeks or months from proliferation. CrowdStrike's 2026...

Vulnerability Remediation: The Complete Guide to Fixing Security Weaknesses

Your scanners find thousands of vulnerabilities every cycle. Your team triages, assigns, and patches what they can. But weeks later, the same critical CVEs still sit open, SLAs blow past their deadlines, and the backlog keeps growing. The problem is rarely a lack of detection. It is a broken...

SIR-Bench: Evaluating Investigation Depth in Security Incident Response Agents

We present SIR-Bench, a benchmark of 794 test cases for evaluating autonomous security incident response agents that distinguishes genuine forensic investigation from alert parroting. Derived from 129 anonymized incident patterns with expert-validated ground truth, SIR-Bench measures not only...

The Increasing Role of AI in Vulnerability Research

At Wordfence, we run a bug bounty program that pays out mid-six figures per year to researchers in bug bounties for WordPress related vulnerabilities. Funding this research helps us improve security for the WordPress community overall, and helps us secure our customers by rolling out protection f...

Why Every Enterprise Needs a Risk Operations Center (ROC)

Enterprise security has long optimized for speed of response over prevention of risk. At Qualys, we recognized early that this left half the problem unsolved, and we have spent years building the operational frameworks to close that gap. The Risk Operations Center is the result. Here is a scenari...

New Whitepaper: Stealthy BPFDoor Variants are a Needle That Looks Like Hay

Executive Overview Advanced persistent threats APTs are constantly and consistently changing tactics as network defenders plug holes in defenses. Static indicators of compromise IoCs for the BPFDoor have been widely deployed, forcing threat actors to get creative in their use of this particular...

3 SOC Process Fixes That Unlock Tier 1 Productivity

What is really slowing Tier 1 down: the threat itself or the process around it? In many SOCs, the biggest delays do not come from the threat alone. They come from fragmented workflows, manual triage steps, and limited visibility early in the investigation. Fixing those process gaps can help Tier ...

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BIT-DISCOURSE-2026-27740 Discourse has Stored XSS in AI Triage Automation

Discourse is an open-source discussion platform. Versions prior to 2026.3.0, 2026.2.1, and 2026.1.2 have a cross-site scripting vulnerability that arises because the system trusts the raw output from an AI Large Language Model LLM and renders it using htmlSafe in the Review Queue interface withou...

Policy-Guided Threat Hunting: An LLM Enabled Framework with Splunk SOC Triage

With frequently evolving Advanced Persistent Threats APTs in cyberspace, traditional security solutions approaches have become inadequate for threat hunting for organizations. Moreover, SOC Security Operation Centers analysts are often overwhelmed and struggle to analyze the huge volume of logs...

CVE-2026-27740

Discourse is an open-source discussion platform. Versions prior to 2026.3.0-latest.1, 2026.2.1, and 2026.1.2 have a cross-site scripting vulnerability that arises because the system trusts the raw output from an AI Large Language Model LLM and renders it using htmlSafe in the Review Queue interfa...

EUVD-2026-13194

Discourse is an open-source discussion platform. Versions prior to 2026.3.0-latest.1, 2026.2.1, and 2026.1.2 have a cross-site scripting vulnerability that arises because the system trusts the raw output from an AI Large Language Model LLM and renders it using htmlSafe in the Review Queue interfa...

CVE-2026-27740 Discourse has Stored XSS in AI Triage Automation

Discourse is an open-source discussion platform. Versions prior to 2026.3.0-latest.1, 2026.2.1, and 2026.1.2 have a cross-site scripting vulnerability that arises because the system trusts the raw output from an AI Large Language Model LLM and renders it using htmlSafe in the Review Queue interfa...

CVE-2026-27740 Discourse has Stored XSS in AI Triage Automation

Discourse is an open-source discussion platform. Versions prior to 2026.3.0-latest.1, 2026.2.1, and 2026.1.2 have a cross-site scripting vulnerability that arises because the system trusts the raw output from an AI Large Language Model LLM and renders it using htmlSafe in the Review Queue interfa...

CVE-2026-27740

Discourse (open-source discussion platform) is affected by CVE-2026-27740. Versions prior to 2026.3.0-latest.1, 2026.2.1, and 2026.1.2 are vulnerable to stored XSS caused by trusting raw output from an AI Large Language Model and rendering it with htmlSafe in the Review Queue without adequate san...

Before You Hand over the Wheel: Evaluating LLMs for Security Incident Analysis

Security incident analysis SIA poses a major challenge for security operations centers, which must manage overwhelming alert volumes, large and diverse data sources, complex toolchains, and limited analyst expertise. These difficulties intensify because incidents evolve dynamically and require...

Top 5 Ways Broken Triage Increases Business Risk Instead of Reducing It

Triage is supposed to make things simpler. In a lot of teams, it does the opposite. When you can’t reach a confident verdict early, alerts turn into repeat checks, back-and-forth, and “just escalate it” calls. That cost doesn’t stay inside the SOC; it shows up as missed SLAs, higher cost per case...