The SOAR Maintenance Tax: Why Playbook Inventories Don’t Scale in 2026

This D3 Security blog argues that traditional playbook-based SOARs incur a hidden ‘maintenance tax’ as playbook count, integrations, and API churn multiply operational burden, and promotes D3’s Morpheus investigation-first platform—which uses Attack Path Discovery, AI Adaptive Tasking, and self-healing connectors—to reduce code inventory, speed investigations, and maintain governance for regulated environments.