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What Good Looks Like in an Agentic SOC (and the Five Questions That Prove It)
Every agentic SOC demos well. Here’s what separates production-ready from a demo: an eight-stage lifecycle and five questions any buyer can ask any vendor.
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Your Analysts Don’t Have an Alert Problem. They Have a Story Problem.
An alert is a symptom, not an explanation. The real SOC bottleneck is turning signals into the story of what happened. That is the job…
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Four Years on ServiceNow SOAR Taught One Global 1000 SOC Exactly What to Look For
A Global 1000 SOC spent four years on ServiceNow SOAR. That experience became a checklist for modern alert triage. See what they learned to look…
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Palo Alto Says XSOAR’s Successor Is a Rebuild. That Makes the Destination Your Call.
Cortex AgentiX is XSOAR’s named successor, and reaching it means a migration. See how to migrate off XSOAR without re-platforming your SIEM.
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The Most Dangerous Answer in the SOC Is a Confident One
Accuracy on a good day is the wrong measure of an AI SOC. What matters is what it does when it doesn’t know, and why…
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Designing an AI SOC That Fails Toward a Human
Fail-open is a design principle: when an AI SOC can’t reach a reliable conclusion, it defaults to human review. Here’s the architecture.
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The Playbook Estate Problem: When Your SOAR Needs a Full-Time Owner
Year one with a playbook SOAR is exciting. Year three, an engineer owns it full-time. The agentic SOC question nobody budgets for at renewal.
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Evaluating SOC Automation Vendor Risk in 2026
SOC automation vendor risk is the chance your platform is acquired, repriced, or re-platformed before you recoup your investment. Here’s a five-factor framework.
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The SOAR Maintenance Tax: Why Playbook Inventories Don’t Scale in 2026
Why SOAR deployments built on large Python playbook inventories hit a maintenance wall, what it costs in dedicated headcount, and how investigation-first architectures (Attack Path…
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