AI Is No Longer Optional for your SOC by Gearóid Ó Fearghaíl

**Executive summary:** This Vectra AI commentary describes how cloud/SaaS adoption and AI-powered attacker tools have increased alert volume and attacker velocity, argues that SOCs must focus on reducing blast radius, improving post-compromise detection, and accelerating time-to-response, and recommends careful, controlled use of AI to automate investigation and remediation workflows rather than simply adding chatbots.