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CrowdStrike

CrowdStrike Delivers the Next Evolution of the Agentic SOC

Sep 2, 2026 By Brandon Benke In CrowdStrike
The average adversary breakout time is now 29 minutes, with the fastest recorded at 27 seconds, according to the CrowdStrike 2026 Global Threat Report. AI is supercharging the adversary playbook, empowering many to move faster across multiple domains. Defenders must match that speed with AI-driven security operations that investigate and respond across every domain, in real time.
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Torq

More Tools Never Fixed the SOC: The Bottleneck Was Never Visibility

Aug 26, 2026 By David Melamed In Torq
Odysseus left Troy with a fleet and reached Ithaca with nothing, having lost every ship to the sea. While the war was won by force, the journey home was won by wits, and ultimately the fleet barely mattered. Most security operations centers are still running their SecOps voyage the way Odysseus ran the war: more tools, more force, more signal. It is the wrong instinct, because the SOC bottleneck was never how much you can see. It is how fast you can decide.
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Arctic Wolf President & CEO Nick Schneider on AWS Security LIVE! at Black Hat USA 2026

Aug 21, 2026 By Arctic Wolf Networks In Arctic Wolf
The volume, velocity, and sophistication of cyber threats continue to grow. Security teams need a new approach. At AWS Security LIVE! during Black Hat USA 2026, Arctic Wolf President & CEO Nick Schneider joined Amazon Web Services' Jess Kubat, Ryan Orsi and Brian Mendenhall for a discussion on security operations at Machine Speed and how organizations can combine AI-powered capabilities with security expertise to stay ahead of modern threats.
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UTMStack

What Is a Security Operations Center? a 2026 Guide

Aug 20, 2026 By cesmng In UTMStack
A security operations center is a centralized function that continuously monitors, detects, investigates, and responds to cyber threats across an organization's environment. The global SOC market was valued at USD 42.85 billion in 2024 in one estimate and is projected to reach USD 91.88 billion by 2034, while another estimate places it at USD 52.3 billion in 2025 with a projection of USD 130.2 billion by 2034 (market estimate).
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Arctic Wolf

The Tiered SOC Is Breaking: Why the Agentic SOC Is the Only Model Built for Machine-Speed Attacks

Aug 18, 2026 By Arctic Wolf In Arctic Wolf
Twenty-two seconds. That’s the median time it now takes for one attacker to hand freshly compromised access to the next team in the chain, the group that drives toward ransomware. In 2022, that hand-off took more than eight hours. In 2025, it took twenty-two seconds. Now consider how the average security operations center (SOC) is structured to respond. An alert fires, lands in a queue, and waits for a Tier 1 analyst to triage it. It escalates to Tier 2 for investigation.
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tanium

Slash Commands Bring Expert SecOps Workflows to Atlas

Aug 18, 2026 By Tanium Staff In Tanium
Security teams don't have a shortage of data. They have a shortage of time, repeatability, and senior expertise available at the exact moment an analyst needs it. That's the problem Atlas slash commands are designed to solve. With /hunt, /investigate, and /signal, Atlas turns a simple chat interaction into a guided SecOps workflow grounded in live endpoint state.
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The Howler Episode 33 - Matt Setzer, SVP, Chief Architect

Aug 17, 2026 By Arctic Wolf Networks In Arctic Wolf
This month, we sit down with Matt Setzer, Senior Vice President, Chief Architect, to learn more about a day in the life of an architect, his philosophy on meaningful innovation, and so much more! Matt Setzer is SVP & Chief Architect at Arctic Wolf, where he partners with product and engineering leadership to set the technical strategy for the Arctic Wolf products and platform. Matt has spent the last twenty years in senior engineering and architect roles in the security space at Microsoft and Sophos. Prior to that he spent number of years working in the game industry.
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Solving the SOC Data Problem: How Modern SIEM Platforms Cut Noise Without Cutting Visibility

Solving the SOC Data Problem: How Modern SIEM Platforms Cut Noise Without Cutting Visibility

Aug 17, 2026 By SecuritySenses In SecuritySenses
Security teams have a data problem, not a detection problem. Most SOCs today aren't short on logs - they're drowning in them. Every firewall, endpoint, identity provider, and cloud workload generates a steady stream of events, and somewhere inside that noise sits the handful of signals that actually matter. The challenge isn't collecting more data. It's finding the right data fast enough to act on it.
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Proving the value of security operations with Christopher Crowley [344]

Aug 13, 2026 By LimaCharlie In LimaCharlie
Today we're speaking with Christopher Crowley, cybersecurity consultant through Montance and Senior Instructor with the SANS Institute, about the value of cybersecurity operations — how to measure it, how to express it to the business, and how AI is changing the work of the SOC.
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