Is The SOC Obsolete, And We Just Haven’t Admitted It Yet?
For decades, the Security Operations Center (SOC) has been the beating heart of enterprise defense. Analysts monitor dashboards, triage alerts, and investigate incidents around the clock. The SOC is often portrayed as the last line of defense—a place where intelligence meets action. And yet, if we are honest, the SOC as we know it is already obsolete. Not because analysts aren’t skilled or diligent, but because the very nature of cyber threats has changed faster than our operational models can keep up.
The modern SOC is still largely a human-centric workflow. Analysts pivot between tools, manually enrich alerts, and painstakingly validate detection rules. Security vendors promise a revolution: an AI SOC capable of autonomous investigations, dramatically reduced workloads, and proactive threat response. In practice, these promises remain aspirational.
In fact, Anton Chuvakin and Oliver Rochford recently co-authored When Marketing Fails,highlighting the gap between AI SOC marketing claims and...
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