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Escaping SOC Burnout: State of Security 2025

Michael Fanning, CISO at Splunk, shares insights on cybersecurity challenges highlighted in the Splunk State of Security report. Key issues include analyst burnout and alert fatigue, which persist over time. Fanning discusses how AI can improve efficiency and support analysts, emphasizing the need for better prioritization and event correlation in security operations to enhance effectiveness..…

Video: How Omega Systems Puts The Security In MSSP

In this episode of Channel Insider: Partner POV, host Katie Bavoso sits down with Mike Fuhrman, CEO of Omega Systems, to discuss the company’s transformation from a traditional Managed Service Provider (MSP) to a Managed Security Services Provider (MSSP). This shift was a priority for Fuhrman when he joined the company in 2021. Fuhrman explains…

A Brief Guide for Dealing with ‘Humanless SOC’ Idiots

image by Meta.AI lampooning humanless SOC My former “colleagues” have written several serious pieces of research about why a SOC without humans will never happen (“Predict 2025: There Will Never Be an Autonomous SOC”, “The “Autonomous SOC” Is A Pipe Dream”, “Stop Trying To Take Humans Out Of Security Operations”). But I wanted to write…

New Paper: “Future of SOC: Transform the ‘How’” (Paper 5)

After a long, long, long writing effort … eh … break, we are ready with our 5th Deloitte and Google Cloud Future of the SOC paper “Future of SOC: Transform the ‘How’.” As a reminder (and I promise you do need it; it has been years…), the previous 4 papers are: “New Paper: “Future of the SOC: Evolution or…