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2025

State of Security

The stronger, smarter SOC of the future

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Transforming the SOC from overwhelmed to optimized

Think of the biggest threats to the SOC. Industry stereotypes might lead you to picture a hacker in a hoodie, enveloped in shadows as they type prompts into a command line. Or perhaps a team of highly skilled and credentialed nation-state actors poring over top-secret threat intel in a windowless, undisclosed government office.

Imagining these threat actors can fuel any SOC member’ s drive to defend. No doubt, these are all very real threats. But what’ s often overlooked is internal – the threat of inefficiency. Analysts play an endless game of Whac-A-Mole™, missing critical incidents that end up as costly breaches. Teams spend more time maintaining tools than defending the organization. Faulty data leads to faulty detections, weakening cyber defenses. And persistent skills gaps continue to stretch existing teams thin.

Teams will reach a crossroads as toolsets expand, the skills gap widens, and technologies like AI become more central to the SOC. Will security tools pile up, creating even more complexity? Will collaboration across the business become second nature to SOC teams, or will they remain in their comfort zone?

It’ s time to reimagine the SOC and what it could be. SOC teams of the future will elevate their skills by relying on AI and automation. As a result, analysts will spend their time building stronger defense methods like detection as code( DaC) and perfecting their investigation protocols. They’ ll take a smarter, unified approach to threat detection and response, leading to tighter collaboration and bringing more context and speed to investigations. p

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