Large Language Models for Security Operations Centers: a Comprehensive Survey

Large Language Models LLMs have emerged as powerful tools capable of understanding and generating human-like text, offering transformative potential across diverse domains. The Security Operations Center SOC, responsible for safeguarding digital infrastructure, represents one of these domains. SO...

CVE-2025-9918

CVE-2025-9918 describes a Path Traversal vulnerability in the archive extraction component of Google SecOps SOAR Server, affecting version 6.3.54.0, 6.3.53.2 and earlier. An authenticated attacker with import-use-case permissions can achieve Remote Code Execution by uploading a malicious ZIP arch...

LLMs in the SOC: an Empirical Study of Human-AI Collaboration in Security Operations Centres

The integration of Large Language Models LLMs into Security Operations Centres SOCs presents a transformative, yet still evolving, opportunity to reduce analyst workload through human-AI collaboration. However, their real-world application in SOCs remains underexplored. To address this gap, we...

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...

Dow’s 125-year legacy: Innovating with AI to secure a long future

Founded more than 125 years ago, Dow has demonstrated a commitment to leveraging science to make the world a better place. Today, Dow’s ambition to be the most innovative, inclusive, and sustainable materials science company is supported by a global security team dedicated to keeping employees,...

Hive Pro’s Gartner Recognition in the Hype Cycle for Security Operations 2025: What It Means for Security Leaders and the Future of Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity is a race against time, threat actors and attacks. And the industry’s wish has also come true, cybersecurity is becoming a boardroom conversation requiring more of the CISO’s attention. On the other hand, regulatory pressures, expanding attack surfaces, and relentless adversaries...

Announcing public preview: Phishing triage agent in Microsoft Defender

Intelligent triage for a more agile, autonomous SOC At Microsoft Secure 2025, we introduced a new wave of innovations across Microsoft Defender aimed at redefining what AI can do for security operations. At the center of these announcements was the launch of 11 Security Copilot agents, each...

Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2021-47528

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: usb: cdnsp: Fix a NULL pointer dereference in cdnspendpointinit In cdnspendpointinit,...

How Top SOCs Defend Against Emerging Threats with Live Attack Data

Disclosure: This article was provided by ANY.RUN. The information and analysis presented are based on their research and findings...

Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2021-4441

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: spi: spi-zynq-qspi: Fix a NULL pointer dereference in zynqqspiexecmemop In zynqqspiexecmemop...

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...

You Are What You Eat: Why Your AI Security Tools Are Only as Strong as the Data You Feed Them

Just as triathletes know that peak performance requires more than expensive gear, cybersecurity teams are discovering that AI success depends less on the tools they deploy and more on the data that powers them The junk food problem in cybersecurity Imagine a triathlete who spares no expense on...

Alert Fatigue, Data Overload, and the Fall of Traditional SIEMs

Security Operations Centers SOCs are stretched to their limits. Log volumes are surging, threat landscapes are growing more complex, and security teams are chronically understaffed. Analysts face a daily battle with alert noise, fragmented tools, and incomplete data visibility. At the same time,...

Pentests once a year? Nope. It's time to build an offensive SOC

You wouldn't run your blue team once a year, so why accept this substandard schedule for your offensive side? Your cybersecurity teams are under intense pressure to be proactive and to find your network's weaknesses before adversaries do. But in many organizations, offensive security is still...

Microsoft Sentinel data lake: Unify signals, cut costs, and power agentic AI

You can’t protect what you can’t see. Security operations teams have long been faced with the challenge of managing massive, fast-growing datasets, and the cost of scaling traditional data management tools to handle these data volumes has become unsustainable. We’re evolving our industry-leading...

Improving IT efficiency with Microsoft Security Copilot in Microsoft Intune and Microsoft Entra

When Microsoft introduced Microsoft Security Copilot last year, our vision was to empower organizations with generative AI that helps security and IT teams simplify operations and respond faster. Since then, we’ve continuously innovated and learned alongside our customers. They consistently tell ...

Microsoft expands Zero Trust workshop to cover network, SecOps, and more

Building on identity, devices, and data, the workshop now covers network, infrastructure, and SecOps As the nature of cyberthreats and security challenges evolve, organizations have coalesced around a Zero Trust architecture as the approach to modernize their end-to-end security adoption and...

The Hidden Weaknesses in AI SOC Tools that No One Talks About

If you're evaluating AI-powered SOC platforms, you've likely seen bold claims: faster triage, smarter remediation, and less noise. But under the hood, not all AI is created equal. Many solutions rely on pre-trained AI models that are hardwired for a handful of specific use cases. While that might...

That Network Traffic Looks Legit, But it Could be Hiding a Serious Threat

With nearly 80% of cyber threats now mimicking legitimate user behavior, how are top SOCs determining what's legitimate traffic and what is potentially dangerous? Where do you turn when firewalls and endpoint detection and response EDR fall short at detecting the most important threats to your...