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AI-Human Collaboration in Modern SOCs

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AI-Human Collaboration in Modern SOCs (PDF, 0.38MB)Published: 17 Mar, 2026
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Mathias Fuchs
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Enterprises face upwards of 3,000 security alerts daily, and according to the SANS 2025 SOC Survey, two-thirds of security operations center (SOC) teams cannot keep pace. In many organizations, nearly half of all alerts go completely uninvestigated. This paper examines whether SOCs that refuse to adopt AI-assisted capabilities can survive what’s coming.

AI-Human Collaboration in Modern SOCs

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In this SANS webcast, Mathias Fuchs examines whether human-only security operations can realistically keep up in an era of AI-enabled attacks, shrinking budgets, and a widening cybersecurity workforce gap.

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