Sponsored by Dropzone AI, HYAS Infosec, Radiant Security, and Sevco Security
Published October 2024
Executive summary
Security operations centers (SOCs) play a critical vanguard role in defending organizations against offensive security threats. For the SOCs in this research, the number of security alerts continue to increase—and this is without full visibility of their attack surface. Alert volume is only going to worsen as threat actors make increasing use of AI to power the next generation of novel and sophisticated cyberattacks. Organizations are fully cognizant that the technical innovations that have driven increased SOC performance in recent years will not sustain performance against the next wave of AI-powered attacks.
Counteracting emerging sophisticated threats and driving the next horizon of effectiveness and efficiency for the modern SOC require organizations to take a much more proactive approach in adopting AI-powered defenses, including behavior analysis, threat detection against baseline deviations, and alert triage.