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The Howler Podcast: Three Year Anniversary

The Howler Podcast is 3! Join Chelsea and Mary as they reflect on the past three years and chat with special guest, Brian NeSmith, Co-founder & Executive Chairman! Interested in running with the pack? Explore careers at Arctic Wolf—one of the fastest-growing and exciting cybersecurity companies in the world, to learn about how you can join our Pack, create impact, and influence what’s next in security operations.
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Increasingly Dangerous Threats, Not More Alerts, Are the New SOC Challenge

For years, security operations centres have operated under the same constraints of more alerts than analysts, more investigations than hours in the day, and more pressure than most teams can sustainably absorb. That imbalance is becoming dangerous as frontier models rapidly improve at finding vulnerabilities and turning them into exploits, while defenders are left dealing with the consequences in real time.

CrowdStrike Delivers the Next Evolution of the Agentic SOC

The average adversary breakout time is now 29 minutes, with the fastest recorded at 27 seconds, according to the CrowdStrike 2026 Global Threat Report. AI is supercharging the adversary playbook, empowering many to move faster across multiple domains. Defenders must match that speed with AI-driven security operations that investigate and respond across every domain, in real time.

More Tools Never Fixed the SOC: The Bottleneck Was Never Visibility

Odysseus left Troy with a fleet and reached Ithaca with nothing, having lost every ship to the sea. While the war was won by force, the journey home was won by wits, and ultimately the fleet barely mattered. Most security operations centers are still running their SecOps voyage the way Odysseus ran the war: more tools, more force, more signal. It is the wrong instinct, because the SOC bottleneck was never how much you can see. It is how fast you can decide.

Arctic Wolf President & CEO Nick Schneider on AWS Security LIVE! at Black Hat USA 2026

The volume, velocity, and sophistication of cyber threats continue to grow. Security teams need a new approach. At AWS Security LIVE! during Black Hat USA 2026, Arctic Wolf President & CEO Nick Schneider joined Amazon Web Services' Jess Kubat, Ryan Orsi and Brian Mendenhall for a discussion on security operations at Machine Speed and how organizations can combine AI-powered capabilities with security expertise to stay ahead of modern threats.

What Is a Security Operations Center? a 2026 Guide

A security operations center is a centralized function that continuously monitors, detects, investigates, and responds to cyber threats across an organization's environment. The global SOC market was valued at USD 42.85 billion in 2024 in one estimate and is projected to reach USD 91.88 billion by 2034, while another estimate places it at USD 52.3 billion in 2025 with a projection of USD 130.2 billion by 2034 (market estimate).

The Tiered SOC Is Breaking: Why the Agentic SOC Is the Only Model Built for Machine-Speed Attacks

Twenty-two seconds. That’s the median time it now takes for one attacker to hand freshly compromised access to the next team in the chain, the group that drives toward ransomware. In 2022, that hand-off took more than eight hours. In 2025, it took twenty-two seconds. Now consider how the average security operations center (SOC) is structured to respond. An alert fires, lands in a queue, and waits for a Tier 1 analyst to triage it. It escalates to Tier 2 for investigation.

The Howler Episode 33 - Matt Setzer, SVP, Chief Architect

This month, we sit down with Matt Setzer, Senior Vice President, Chief Architect, to learn more about a day in the life of an architect, his philosophy on meaningful innovation, and so much more! Matt Setzer is SVP & Chief Architect at Arctic Wolf, where he partners with product and engineering leadership to set the technical strategy for the Arctic Wolf products and platform. Matt has spent the last twenty years in senior engineering and architect roles in the security space at Microsoft and Sophos. Prior to that he spent number of years working in the game industry.