Build to learn, buy to scale: When to build your own AI SOC (and when to stop)

This article evaluates the trade-offs of building an in-house AI-driven Security Operations Center (AI SOC), highlighting short-term benefits like faster triage, enrichment, and learning about telemetry, while warning of long-term costs such as maintenance burden, model drift, governance, and scalability; it recommends building to understand but partnering or buying to scale when operational limits are reached.