A junior analyst in a security operations center, or SOC, has usually learned the job the slow way. You work the same phishing lure dozens of times, chase the same familiar malware pattern and write up the same case note at the end of the shift. Eventually you know what normal looks like, which is how you notice when something isn’t.
Many expect AI in the SOC to make entry jobs harder to get
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