Cybersecurity

SOC as Code: Why the Next Stage of Security Operations Is About Scale, Not More Screens

The security industry has spent decades improving what analysts can do inside a console. But for many of today’s security organizations—especially MSSPs—the bigger problem is no longer the individual console. It is scale. How do you enforce the same operating policy across dozens or hundreds of customer environments? How do you onboard new telemetry without

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From Alert Automation to Measurable Outcomes: What an Autonomous SOC Should Actually Deliver

For years, security automation has been measured by activity. How many alerts did we enrich? How many playbooks ran? How many investigations did AI summarize? How many analyst clicks did we eliminate? Those are useful metrics—but they are not the outcome. The real questions are harder: Did we find the threats that mattered? Did we

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Your Customers Already Have IAM. Turn Identity Signals Into Your Next Managed Service.

How MSSPs can use Stellar Cyber to package identity insight into a timely, scalable managed service that creates new recurring revenue and deeper customer value. The opportunity: turn identity telemetry customers already generate into a managed service that detects abnormal behavior, correlates it with the broader attack, guides response, and proves value with tenant-specific reporting.

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Your Next Identity May Not Be Human

For decades, enterprise identity security was built around people. Employees logged in. Administrators received privileges. Contractors were provisioned and eventually removed. That model is changing fast. AI agents, bots, service accounts and other machine identities can authenticate to applications, call APIs, access data and take actions on behalf of people or businesses. If a machine

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IAM Protects the Identity. ITDR Protects the Moment.

Your employee successfully authenticates. MFA works. The account is valid. The permissions are legitimate. There’s just one problem: The person using the identity may be an attacker. That scenario gets to the heart of one of the biggest changes happening in enterprise security. For years, organizations have invested heavily in Identity and Access Management (IAM)

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The Hidden SecOps Bottleneck: Getting the Right Data In and the Right Actions Out

Every security team wants better outcomes. Faster detection. Faster triage. Faster investigation. Faster response.But many teams are slowed down by a less visible problem: operational friction. A customer has a data source that is not supported yet. A parser needs to be built. A log format is messy. A hunting playbook works in one environment

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Detection Fidelity Is the New SecOps Efficiency Metric

Security teams have spent years collecting more data, generating more alerts, and covering more attack surfaces. But more is not always better. More alerts can mean more noise. More detections can mean more false positives. More telemetry can mean more data to search, store, normalize, and explain. For MSSPs, that creates margin pressure. For lean

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When Your SOC Analyst is Also a Bot: AI Agents, MCP, and Many Automation Opportunities in Your Security Operations

From AI Experiments to Autonomous Operations – Christophe Briguet, Sr. Director of Product Management – AI & Security Analytics, Stellar Cyber San Jose, Calif. – Apr. 28, 2026 Something shifted in early 2026. Not gradually — more like flipping a switch. For years, we talked about AI in the SOC the way we talked about

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The Human-augmented autonomous SOC: A Perfect Blend of Technology and Humanity

Just after the turn of the century, IBM introduced the term, ‘autonomic IT.” At the time, IBM’s perspective was that IT applications, networks, and systems had become too complex for humans to manage, monitor, or secure. IBM presented its autonomic IT concept, with a vision of IT systems that could manage themselves with advanced capabilities

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NDR is a Requirement for Modern Security Defenses and the Agentic SOC

Network Detection and Response (NDR) has been the Rodney Dangerfield of security tools over the past few years – “it don’t get no respect.” Conceivably, this state of disrepute came from all the marketing money thrown at Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) and eXtended Detection and Response (XDR). It could also be related to growth

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Anthropic’s Mythos Preview just changed the threat landscape in ways the security industry isn’t fully prepared for

The attacker’s blind spot just disappeared Today’s attackers largely treat software as a black box. Some study open-source software (OSS) to tailor their techniques, but doing this at scale has always been practically impossible which created a natural ceiling on adversarial precision. Mythos removes that ceiling entirely. Because frontier LLMs are trained on virtually all

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Inside Stellar Cyber’s Data Pipeline: The Hidden Engine Behind Smarter Security

Executive Summary Modern SOCs are overwhelmed by data volume and complexity. The ability to filter, normalize, enrich, and route security data at scale without losing fidelity directly impacts detection accuracy, analyst efficiency, and compliance posture. With the full understanding of the significance of the data challenges and needs of such ability, Stellar Cyber’s data pipeline

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Lights-Out SOC? Yes, It’s Coming (and Faster Than You Think)

Recognized by Fast Company, TAG is a trusted next generation research and advisory company that utilizes an AI-powered SaaS platform to deliver on-demand insights, guidance, and recommendations to enterprise teams, government agencies, and commercial vendors in cybersecurity and artificial intelligence, Download TAG Analyst Report Is the human-augmented autonomous SOC a contrarian idea or the next

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From Pyramid of Pain to Pyramid of Influence: Rethinking the Analyst’s Role in the Human-Augmented SOC

Bullish on Autonomous SOC. Realist about what gets us there. There’s been plenty of talk lately about the Autonomous SOC — a future where machines don’t just alert but correlate, triage, investigate, and respond. It sounds fantastic, especially if you’ve ever worked the night shift buried in alerts. But here’s the truth: you can’t automate

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Identity Security, Reinvented: How Stellar Cyber ITDR Stops Credential-Based Attacks Before They Spread

In today’s hybrid world, identity is the new perimeter-and attackers know it. As traditional EDR and SIEM tools struggle to keep up, identity-focused attacks are rising fast. In fact, 70% of breaches now start with stolen credentials, according to Verizon’s 2024 and 2025 DBIR reports. This calls for a smarter approach to identity security-one that

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