Articles about soc modernization from security operations practitioners.
At my last fintech, every endpoint, identity provider, and cloud account fed the SIEM. An attacker still moved laterally for two days without triggering a rule. The logs were present; the detection engineering was not.
I ran SOC budget cycles across the whole 2020-to-2026 span, and the line items tell the story better than the vendor decks do. Five shifts were structural: the perimeter moved to identity, log economics broke, automation stopped being optional, detection engineering became a discipline, and AI triage reached production. One thing never moved. Someone still owns the alert at 2 a.m.
Practitioner takes on SOC modernization, detection engineering, threat hunting, and more. No fluff. No product pitches.