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Elastic's Darren LaCasse on Why SOC Teams Should Sort Alerts by Volume Before Severity
Darren LaCasse, Director of Threat Intelligence, Detection, & Response at Elastic, makes a case that most SOC leaders are solving alert fatigue the wrong way. Starting with critical alerts keeps…
ECS's Dave Howard & Jesse Mainor on 40% Faster Triage with 12 Analysts & 30K Monthly Alerts
ECS now operates with 12 tier-one analysts instead of 14 while triaging 30,000 monthly alerts, achieving a 40% reduction in mean time to triage for Dropzone-handled alerts. Dave Howard, Senior…
How Analyst Feedback Says More Than Any SOC
Austin Amraen, SOC Director at CommandLink, has built SOC teams from the ground up multiple times, and his approach challenges some of the field's most accepted assumptions. He rejects the…
Sneha Regmi on Using Blameless Retros to Enable High-Pressure Decisions
Sneha Regmi, Director of Security Operations & Resilience Engineering at a major Financial Services organization, has an incident command framework that prioritizes scope and impact…
The commodity vs. custom threat split: How automation reshapes SOC work | Allen Carter
Allen Carter, former Director of IT Security Operations, ran security operations at Gilead Sciences for a decade, building three teams including a global SOC across India, the UK, and multiple US…
How to Stop SOC Analyst Burnout: Peacetime vs Wartime Framework
Robert Maxwell, Security Operations Leader, has a peacetime versus wartime operating model that gives analysts flexibility during normal operations to balance out the 16-hour days that often happen…
How to Build Efficient Security Teams with AI and Automation
Joe Albers, Director of Information Security Operations at Element Solutions, Inc., manages a six-person follow-the-sun security team with a counterintuitive framework: accept reduced alert coverage…
Advanced Persistent Threats Targeting Nonprofits Explained
Robert Keefer, Associate Director of Security Operations at The Pew Charitable Trusts, has reversed the traditional security equation by building defense in depth that forces attackers to succeed…
Interview Questions That Predict SOC Analyst Burnout Risk
Andrew “AJ” Jarrett, Director of Cyber Monitoring & Incident Response at DTCC, applies emergency response frameworks from his firefighting career to build SOC teams that execute under pressure…
TransUnion's Eder Ribeiro on Teaching "Barney Style" and with Empathy
When seven different responders and law firms were thrown into the same ransomware negotiation chat by a threat actor, Eder Ribeiro, Director of Global Incident Response at TransUnion, it became his…
Cyderes’ Stephen Fridakis on Why IT & CISOs Are the Moon (They Reflect)
Cyderes' CISO in Residence Stephen Fridakis’s vulnerability management framework rejects the "list problem" mindset — scan, report, patch what you can — in favor of contextual risk assessment. His…
Vulnerable U’s Matt Johansen on Capturing Cybersecurity's Authentic Voice
Matt Johansen, Founder of Vulnerable U, built a following of 133,000 cybersecurity professionals by abandoning corporate messaging for authentic practitioner-to-practitioner communication. His…
ThoughtSpot's Alessio Faiella on Measuring Real ROI from AI Security Tools
Alessio Faiella, Sr. Director of Security Engineering at ThoughtSpot, sees security teams making the same mistakes with AI that they've made with every new technology: rushing to implement without…
Rezliant Inc.'s Brook Schoenfield on AI Error Rates vs Human SOC Analysis
Brook Schoenfield, Chief Scientist and EVP of Services at Rezliant Inc., brings decades of security architecture experience to explain why SOCs function as the ultimate firewall when all other…
TALAS Security’s Paul Marco on the Four Data Types Every Security Investigation Needs
Paul Marco, Co-founder of TALAS Security, challenges the assumption that effective security operations follow a universal playbook. His decades of hands-on SOC experience reveal that the most…
Theory Ventures' Andy Triedman on AI-Native vs AI-Feature Teams
Andy Triedman, Partner at Theory Ventures, argues that AI is reshaping not just security capabilities, but the entire business model of security companies. Unlike traditional "insurance-style"…
FanDuel's Tyler Martin on 70% Automation Without Losing Human Oversight
In our inaugural episode of Beyond the Alert, we explore how Tyler Martin, Senior Director of Enterprise Security Engineering and Operations at FanDuel, has reimagined what a modern SOC can…
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Beyond the Alert has published 17 episodes since July 2025, covering topics in Technology.
Beyond the Alert is currently active with new episodes every 2 weeks. Average episode length is 37m.
