Reimagining the SOC for the agentic era in Microsoft Defender

Reported by Microsoft Security (Rob Lefferts)

Summary by Cyber Security News23 Sep 2026, 18:00 CEST

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The physics of cybersecurity are changing. So must the security operations center (SOC). Cyberattackers are using agents to automate execution at unprecedented scale.

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