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Stellar Cyber ISOC platform
Product showcase: Stellar Cyber’s ISOC platform provides full-cycle architecture

An AI SOC that starts with somebody else’s alert is already too late. Stellar Cyber collects and normalizes telemetry, detects suspicious activity, correlates evidence, …

red team
Bringing AI into the SOC means watching for shadow AI and loose permissions

In this Help Net Security video, Vince Stoffer, Field CTO at Corelight, talks about how AI is changing work in the SOC and how attackers are using the same tools. He explains …

security operations
Many expect AI in the SOC to make entry jobs harder to get

A junior analyst in a security operations center, or SOC, has usually learned the job the slow way. You work the same phishing lure dozens of times, chase the same familiar …

signal
Half of threat hunters say bad data is their biggest problem

Half of security professionals name data quality or quantity as their biggest barrier to effective threat hunting, according to the SANS 2026 Threat Hunting Survey. Teams with …

AI
One runaway AI agent racked up a $50,000 cloud bill

Organizations are deploying autonomous AI systems that execute API calls, optimize production configurations, and analyze telemetry across hybrid cloud environments. At the …

data analytics
Gartner: 70% of SOCs will pilot AI agents. Only 15% will see results

In the Gartner report Validate the Promises of AI SOC Agents With These Key Questions, analysts Craig Lawson and Andrew Davies posit that “By 2028, 70% of large SOCs will …

Becky Palmer
National Life Group CISO expects more vulnerabilities in six months than in thirty years

In this Help Net Security interview, Becky Palmer, VP and CISO at National Life Group, answers five questions about defending against AI-driven attacks. The discussion covers …

Askeal, the AI cybersecurity assistant that gives verifiable, expert-backed answers

Askeal takes the opposite approach to omniscient Gen AI: rather than pretending to know everything, it combines AI with community expertise. Vetted vendors, researchers, and …

CISO
A hollowed out data layer is making CISOs fly blind into AI attacks

The security industry is currently transitioning to an era where both offense and defense are AI-led, and every SOC operates at machine speed. However, what most CISOs have …

Stellar Cyber
Analysts got 19 minutes back every hour in Stellar Cyber’s agentic auto triage trials

An analyst opening a queue on Monday morning will spend most of it on tickets that amount to nothing. Stellar Cyber’s Agentic Auto Triage closed 8,047 of those tickets …

find
More alerts are making your team slower, and an outcome-based SOC fixes that

In this Help Net Security video, Thom Langford, EMEA CTO, Rapid7, explains why piling on more security alerts makes a SOC slower to respond. Attackers log in with stolen …

red team
The MDR renewal question: What changes when AI can handle the alerts

For most of the past decade, the managed detection and response (MDR) decision was a simple one: teams that couldn’t staff a 24/7 SOC outsourced detection and response …

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