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...

Planning your move to Microsoft Defender portal for all Microsoft Sentinel customers

In November 2023, Microsoft announced our strategy to unify security operations by bringing the best of XDR and SIEM together. Our first step was bringing Microsoft Sentinel into the Defender portal, giving teams a single, comprehensive view of incidents, reducing queue management, enriched threa...

How SOCs Improve Key Cybersecurity KPIs with Better Threat Analysis

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

Business Case for Agentic AI SOC Analysts

Security operations centers SOCs are under pressure from both sides: threats are growing more complex and frequent, while security budgets are no longer keeping pace. Today's security leaders are expected to reduce risk and deliver results without relying on larger teams or increased spending. At...

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...

Adaptive Alert Prioritisation in Security Operations Centres Via Learning to Defer with Human Feedback

Alert prioritisation AP is crucial for security operations centres SOCs to manage the overwhelming volume of alerts and ensure timely detection and response to genuine threats, while minimising alert fatigue. Although predictive AI can process large alert volumes and identify known patterns, it...

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...

CTEM is the New SOC: Shifting from Monitoring Alerts to Measuring Risk

Introduction: Security at a Tipping Point Security Operations Centers SOCs were built for a different era, one defined by perimeter-based thinking, known threats, and manageable alert volumes. But today's threat landscape doesn't play by those rules. The sheer volume of telemetry, overlapping...

Building a Security Operations Center for the Cloud: Key Considerations for People, Processes, and Technology

As cloud adoption accelerates, security operations teams must rethink their people, processes, and technology to enable effective Cloud Detection and Response CDR and secure their evolving cloud attack surface...

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...

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...

ContextBuddy: AI-Enhanced Contextual Insights for Security Alert Investigation (Applied to Intrusion Detection)

Modern Security Operations Centres SOCs integrate diverse tools, such as SIEM, IDS, and XDR systems, offering rich contextual data, including alert enrichments, flow features, and similar case histories. Yet, analysts must still manually determine which of these contextual cues are most relevant...

A Unified Framework for Human AI Collaboration in Security Operations Centers with Trusted Autonomy

This article presents a structured framework for Human-AI collaboration in Security Operations Centers SOCs, integrating AI autonomy, trust calibration, and Human-in-the-loop decision making. Existing frameworks in SOCs often focus narrowly on automation, lacking systematic structures to manage...

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...

Wazuh 4.12.0

Wazuh is a free and open source security platform that unifies XDR and SIEM capabilities. It protects workloads across on-premises, virtualized, containerized, and cloud-based environments. This is the source code release...