Why Manual Cyber Operations Can Create Dangerous Gaps

This report argues that manual SOC operations leave significant coverage gaps (e.g., ~22% coverage of the threat week), waste analyst time, and make ROI hard to measure, and it promotes autonomous, intelligence-driven workflows to achieve continuous 24/7 hunting, instant correlation, and faster detection. Backed by customer data and examples (e.g., Visma, Citizens Bank) and references to sector challenges in healthcare and government, it claims outcomes such as 57% risk reduction, 73% increased visibility, and 350% ROI when adopting Recorded Future’s automated approach.