How Can MSSPs Scale Threat Detection Without Burning Out Their Analysts?

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⚡ Weekly Recap: Telecom Sleeper Cells, LLM Jailbreaks, Apple Forces U.K. Age Checks and More

Some weeks are loud. This one was quieter but not in a good way. Long-running operations are finally hitting courtrooms, old attack methods are showing up in new places, and research that stopped being theoretical right around the time defenders stopped paying attention. There's a bit of everythi...

Building a High-Impact Tier 1: The 3 Steps CISOs Must Follow

Every CISO knows the uncomfortable truth about their Security Operations Center: the people most responsible for catching threats in real time are the people with the least experience. Tier 1 analysts sit at the front line of detection, and yet they are also the most vulnerable to the cognitive a...

How Top CISOs Solve Burnout and Speed up MTTR without Extra Hiring

Why do SOC teams keep burning out and missing SLAs even after spending big on security tools? Routine triage piles up, senior specialists get dragged into basic validation, and MTTR climbs, while stealthy threats still find room to slip through. Top CISOs have realized the solution isn’t hiring...

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...

Great Scott, I’m tired

Welcome to this week's edition of the Threat Source newsletter. "Back to the Future" is 40 years old this year, and at the risk of giving away sensitive information to an audience of hackers… so am I. I don't really know what 40 is supposed to feel like. Honestly, I don't feel all that different...

Alex Ryan: From zero chill to quiet confidence

Welcome to another episode of Humans of Talos, our ongoing video interview series that celebrates the people powering Cisco's threat intelligence efforts. In each episode, we dive deep into the personal journeys, motivations and lessons learned from the team members who help keep the internet saf...

This is your sign to step away from the keyboard

Welcome to this week's edition of the Threat Source newsletter. Burnout is a real issue for people in cybersecurity. We protect the systems that allow modern life to function. Our hours are long, our sense of responsibility real and occasionally heavy. Everyone notices when we have a bad day and ...

How AI-Enabled Workflow Automation Can Help SOCs Reduce Burnout

It sure is a hard time to be a SOC analyst. Every day, they are expected to solve high-consequence problems with half the data and twice the pressure. Analysts are overwhelmed—not just by threats, but by the systems and processes in place that are meant to help them respond. Tooling is fragmented...

Sellers can get scammed too, and Joe goes off on a rant about imposter syndrome

Welcome to this week's edition of the Threat Source newsletter. Hello again my friends! Geez, it's been a year am I right? Lemons its February you say?! Oof. Imposter syndrome. You've heard the term I'm sure, but what is it? Basically: imposter syndrome is the persistent feeling of self-doubt and...

6 Simple Steps to Eliminate SOC Analyst Burnout

The current SOC model relies on a scarce resource: human analysts. These professionals are expensive, in high demand, and increasingly difficult to retain. Their work is not only highly technical and high-risk, but also soul-crushingly repetitive, dealing with a constant flood of alerts and...

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OpenJS Foundation Targeted in Potential JavaScript Project Takeover Attempt

Security researchers have uncovered a "credible" takeover attempt targeting the OpenJS Foundation in a manner that evokes similarities to the recently uncovered incident aimed at the open-source XZ Utils project. "The OpenJS Foundation Cross Project Council received a suspicious series of emails...

Forensia - Anti Forensics Tool For Red Teamers, Used For Erasing Footprints In The Post Exploitation Phase

AntiForensics Tool For Red Teamers, Used For Erasing Some Footprints In The Post Exploitation Phase. Reduces Payload Burnout And Increases Detection Countdown. Can Be Used To Test The capabilities of Your Incident Response / Forensics Teams. Capabilities Unloading Sysmon Driver. Gutmann Method Fi...

It’s really OK to take a break sometimes, especially in security

Welcome to this weeks edition of the Threat Source newsletter. You probably already know this by now, but May is Mental Health Awareness Month across the globe. Many people will apply this time of reflection and education to their personal lives -- its easy to discuss anxiety, depression and othe...

CISOs Are Stressed Out and It's Putting Companies at Risk

Employee well-being has become a primary focus for many businesses. Even before the pandemic, the C-suite was acutely aware of how employee mental health impacts business outcomes. But for cybersecurity professionals, stress has always been a part of the job. A new survey revealed that one of the...

The Empty SOC Shop: Where Has All the Talent Gone?

Anyone involved in hiring security analysts in the last few years is likely painfully aware of the cybersecurity skills shortage – but the talent hasn’t “gone anywhere” so much as it’s been bouncing around all over the place, looking for the highest bidder and most impactful work environment...

Dealing With Alert Overload? There's a Guide For That — The Hacker News

The Great Resignation – or the Great Reshuffle as some are calling it – and the growing skills gap have been dominating headlines lately. But these issues aren't new to the cybersecurity industry. While many are just now hearing about employee burnout, security teams have faced reality and seriou...

How security leaders can help their teams avoid burnout

The security community is continuously changing, growing, and learning from each other to better position the world against cyberthreats. In the latest post of our Voice of the Community blog series, Microsoft Security Senior Product Marketing Manager Brooke Lynn Weenig talks with Maria...