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AI Priced by Productivity, Not Promises

Security operations teams are facing a structural problem that tools alone cannot solve. Alert volumes continue to rise. Telemetry is fragmented across cloud, SaaS, identity, and endpoint environments. Experienced analysts are stretched thin, and hiring additional talent has become increasingly difficult. At the Same time, boards are demanding faster response, stronger governance, and clear proof that security investments are delivering measurable value. AI is often presented as the answer.

Sam the AI SOC Analyst: How a Modern SOC Works When the AI is the Conductor

Security operations have never been more complex. Analysts face more alerts, more tools, and more pressure to make the right decision at the right moment. The work feels less like running a security program and more like trying to keep an orchestra in sync while each musician plays from a different sheet of music. This is the challenge Sam was created to solve. Sam, the Securonix AI SOC Analyst, acts like a skilled conductor guiding a symphony.

How Smarter Security Economics Reduce Risk Without Breaking the SOC Budget

Most people don’t manage their personal finances by spending every dollar the same way. You don’t pay rent, groceries, retirement savings, and entertainment out of one undifferentiated bucket. You allocate intentionally covering daily necessities, protecting the future, and investing in things that improve quality of life. Yet that’s exactly how traditional SIEM pricing works. Every log costs the same. Every gigabyte is treated equally.

Securonix Threat Labs 2025 Annual Autonomous Threat Sweeper Intelligence Insights

The 2025 Annual Cyber Threat Intelligence Report captures the year’s most impactful attack patterns across exploitation-led intrusion, advanced malware (including AI-assisted techniques), and the ongoing evolution of ransomware/RaaS economics.
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It's Good to Talk: Dialogue and Community are Essential to Global Cybersecurity

The recent World Economic Forum meeting focused on "A Spirit of Dialogue". The conference themes emphasized the role of communication and connection in overcoming challenges and driving prosperity in the years ahead.

Analyzing Dead#Vax: Analyzing Multi-Stage VHD Delivery and Self-Parsing Batch Scripts to Deploy In-Memory Shellcode

Securonix Threat Research has been tracking a stealthy malware campaign that uses an uncommon chain of VHD abuse, script-based execution, self-parsing batch logic, fileless PowerShell injections and ultimately dropping RAT. The attack leverages IPFS-hosted VHD files, extreme script obfuscation, runtime decryption, and in-memory shellcode injection into trusted Windows processes, never dropping a decrypted binary to disk.

Preemptive Security, Governed Autonomy, and the Reality of Modern SOC Operations

Artificial intelligence is now central to every conversation about the future of security operations. Terms like autonomous, agentic, and preemptive are everywhere. Yet much of the discussion skips the harder question CISOs, SOC leaders, and boards actually care about: how AI can be applied responsibly, predictably, and at scale in real-world security operations. If we get this wrong, we do not just risk wasted investment. We risk eroding trust in the SOC itself.

Securonix Threat Labs Monthly Intelligence Insights - December 2025

The Monthly Intelligence Insights report provides a summary of top threats curated, monitored, and analyzed by Securonix Threat Labs in December 2025. The report also includes a synopsis of the threats, indicators of compromise (IoCs), tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs), and related tags. Each threat has a comprehensive summary from Threat Labs and search queries from the Threat Research team.

SHADOW#REACTOR - Text-Only Staging, .NET Reactor, and In-Memory Remcos RAT Deployment

The Securonix Threat Research team has analyzed a multi-stage Windows malware campaign tracked as SHADOW#REACTOR. The infection chain follows a tightly orchestrated execution path: an obfuscated VBS launcher executed via wscript.exe invokes a PowerShell downloader, which retrieves fragmented, text-based payloads from a remote host. These fragments are reconstructed into encoded loaders, decoded in memory by a .NET Reactor–protected assembly, and used to fetch and apply a remote Remcos configuration.
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Same Mission, Different Mindsets: CISOs and Incident Response Leaders in the Age of AI and Automation

When you work in cybersecurity, whether you're steering the operational team, or in a more strategic role, the mission is the same: protect the business. But when it comes to executing that mission, finding consensus on the best approach can be hard. At this pivotal point in the evolution of cybersecurity, as automation becomes table stakes and AI adoption accelerates, it is important that stakeholders are pulling in the same direction. However, recent ThreatQuotient research highlights real differences in how CISOs and Heads of IR approach the introduction of AI into cybersecurity strategy and practice.