Guests:  Alexi Wiemer,  Senior Manager at Deloitte Cyber Detection and Response Practice Dan Lauritzen,  Senior Manager at Deloitte Cloud Security Practice. Topics: What is your key learning about the state of SOC today? What one SOC trend are you hearing the most or most interested in?  What is your best advice to SOCs that are permanently and woefully understaffed?  Many SOC analysts are drowning in manual work, and it is easy to give advice that “they   need to automate.” What does this actually entail, in real life? What is, in your view, the most critical technology for a modern SOC? Is it SIEM? Is it SOAR? Is it EDR?  What is the best advice for a SOC that was handed cloud on a platter and was told to monitor it for threats? Occasionally, we hear that “SOC is dead.” What is your response to such dire SOCless predictions?  Resources: “New Paper: “Future Of The SOC: Process Consistency and Creativity: a Delicate Balance” (Paper 3 of 4)” “New Paper: “Future of the SOC: Forces shaping modern security operations”” “New Paper: “Future of the SOC: SOC People — Skills, Not Tiers”” “New Paper: “Autonomic Security Operations — 10X Transformation of the Security Operations Center”” “A SOC Tried To Detect Threats in the Cloud … You Won’t Believe What Happened Next” “Why Your Security Data Lake Project Will FAIL!”