AI is absorbing the volume of work that makes up the fundamental architecture of the Security Operations Center (SOC) tier system. While the tiers and the work aren’t going away, a junior and senior analyst’s day-to-day is changing fast. At some point in the last week, every analyst on your team made the same call. Close an uninvestigated alert, because the queue was too long and triage ate the time real investigation and deep analysis were needed. Most of those calls were right, but odds ar
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For years, cybersecurity professionals have treated vulnerability management as an insular IT operational metric, measured by patch cycles, ticket queues, and scan counts. But a new, data-driven report from Moody's Ratings elevates software vulnerabilities to where they ultimately belong: a material factor in enterprise creditworthiness and organizational resilience.[1]
The report, titled "Risks posed by unpatched software flaws vary by industry and region," analyzes two years of telemetry acro
Throughout early 2026, SentinelOne’s® Digital Forensics & Incident Response (DFIR) team has responded to several incidents in which FortiGate Next-Generation Firewalls (NGFW) have been compromised to establish a foothold in the targeted environment. Each incident was detected and stopped during the lateral movement phase of the attack. Fortinet disclosed and issued patches for several high-severity vulnerabilities, allowing unauthorized access during our investigation period. Successful explo
