The SOC Analyst Role Is Going Up (And It Was Never Going Away)

This whitepaper presents autonomous triage (exemplified by Morpheus from D3 Security) as a solution to SOC alert fatigue and workforce shortages, claiming large reductions in alert volume, false positives, and mean time to respond while freeing analysts to perform threat hunting, detection engineering, and AI validation; it advocates phased adoption, analyst reskilling, and governance to improve security outcomes.