Carson Zimmerman

Carson Zimmerman is the Chief Architect of Microsoft’s Security Operations Center (SOC), where he leads strategic initiatives to advance global threat detection and response. He is co-author of 11 Strategies of a World-Class Cybersecurity Operations Center, a widely adopted guide available freely at MITRE.

Previously at MITRE, Carson’s career spans the full spectrum of SOC roles—from tier 1 analyst, to engineer, to investigator, to SOC team lead.

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