by itogether-wp-admin | Sep 16, 2026 | Uncategorized
TL;DR The average SOC processes around 11,000 alerts a day, but only about 22 per analyst genuinely warrant investigation. Nearly half of all alerts are false positives, and over 40% go entirely uninvestigated. This isn’t a minor inconvenience, it’s the...
by itogether-wp-admin | Sep 8, 2026 | Uncategorized
TL;DR True 24/7 SOC coverage needs 8 to 12 analysts across shifts, not the 2 to 3 headcount most mid-market budgets assume, pushing fully-loaded in-house cost into seven figures a year. Managed SOC services typically run 30 to 50% less, in the region of $60,000 to...
by itogether-wp-admin | Sep 1, 2026 | Uncategorized
TL;DR SIEM isn’t dying, legacy SIEM as passive log storage is. What’s replacing it is AI-powered security intelligence that’s converging with XDR and SOAR into a single platform, not a separate product you buy instead of a SIEM. Microsoft,...
by itogether-wp-admin | Aug 25, 2026 | Uncategorized
TL;DR A NOC (Network Operations Centre) exists to keep the network up, monitoring performance, availability and infrastructure health. A SOC (Security Operations Centre) exists to keep the network safe, monitoring for threats, detecting intrusions and responding to...
by itogether-wp-admin | Aug 18, 2026 | Uncategorized
TL;DR We’ve added ConnectProtect to our partner stack. It’s a Managed XDR platform backed by three global SOCs (UK, South Africa, Philippines), ingesting data from hundreds of security tools and applying AI-driven analytics to cut alert noise down to what...
by itogether-wp-admin | Aug 14, 2026 | Uncategorized
TL;DR Ransomware victims hit a record high in 2025, and weekly attacks per organisation reached 1,968, up 18% year on year and nearly 70% since 2023, according to Check Point’s 14th annual Cyber Security Report, drawing on its own global telemetry and Check...
