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A recent analysis argues that poor alert quality, not the absence of SOAR or AI agents, is the primary factor undermining Security Operations Centers (SOCs). The article emphasizes that simply adding automation or AI to a SOC with weak, contextless alerts only accelerates failure. The key to sustainable and effective detection engineering is methodical alert tuning, contextualization, and actionable outputs, rather than over-reliance on new tools.
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