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Machine Speed, Human Judgement: How AI Changed the SOC in 2026

Having worked across nearly every layer of cybersecurity – from analyst to CISO for two different organizations – I have seen firsthand how difficult security investigations used to be. I still remember trying to manually stitch together security incidents that were scattered across multiple tools and platforms. An alert might originate in one system. Endpoint activity might appear in another. Network telemetry lived somewhere else entirely. Threat intelligence came from yet another source. Correlating all of that information was tedious and often frustrating. Mapping activity against the MITRE ATT&CK framework could take hours—or days—and it frequently felt impossible to do in a timeframe that would allow defenders to catch an attacker while they were still actively operating inside the…

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Jul 7, 2026
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