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When the IT Team Is at the Beach, Who's Watching the Alerts?
Summer holiday rotas leave security desks thin. Kaseya argues AI-driven automation can hold the line, but only if it's set up before the out-of-office replies start.

Buying an AI SOC in 2026? Here's How to Tell the Real Thing From a Chatbot in a Trench Coat
Vendors are all shouting the same three letters. The products behind them are wildly different, and the wrong pick will cost you a year.

How One HR Giant Cut Its Security Bill by $250,000 — by Deleting Data It Never Needed
Vensure Employer Solutions was drowning in its own security logs. An AI-powered clean-up cut costs, halved response times, and proved that more data isn't always safer.

CISOs Are Betting Big on AI—But Is the Hype Outrunning the Evidence?
Reddit's CISO and an Omdia analyst weigh in on where AI security tooling actually delivers, and where the gap between pitch deck and production remains embarrassingly wide.

Cutting Through the AI Noise: What Enterprises Should Actually Be Asking Security Vendors
Marketing copy is cheap. Measurable detection capability is not. Here's how to stress-test an AI security pitch before you sign anything.

The Hidden Cost of Agentic AI in Security: Token Budgets Are Now a Defense Problem
Cybersecurity platforms are racing to embed agentic AI, but the economics of token consumption, AI credits, and deployment architecture may undercut the value before defenders see a return.

The SOC Triangle Was Always a Lie We Accepted. AI Is Changing the Math.
Security operations have run on a structural compromise for decades — quality, consistency, or cost: pick two. That constraint is finally starting to bend.

The AI-SOC Is Maturing Fast. Here Are the Human Roles It Actually Creates.
Autonomous triage agents are already displacing Tier 1 analyst work. But the agentic SOC depends on a new class of human specialists — and those roles are filling now.

The AI SOC Hit Production. Only 10% of Buyers Call It Excellent.
Budgets shifted fast. Outcomes lagged. What the next wave of agentic SOC tooling has to prove before renewal season.

Seven Ways Tabletop Exercises Lie to You About Your Incident Response
Cybersecurity drills that feel productive can quietly manufacture false confidence. Here's where they go wrong — and what to do instead.

SOC Teams Are Running Out of Road Without AI, Manchester Panel Warns
Security practitioners gathered at DTX Manchester to debate machine-versus-machine warfare, alert fatigue, and why the fundamentals still matter before any AI switch gets flipped.

Threat Detection Summits Are Useful. Whether Anyone Acts on Them Is Another Matter.
A free on-demand security summit covering threat detection and incident response frameworks is now available. The sessions are solid. The gap between watching and doing remains, as ever, wide.