October marks Cybersecurity Awareness Month, a timely opportunity to look at how American organizations can strengthen their security operations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Among the biggest challenges SOC teams face is making sure they not only detect and investigate threats, but doing so quickly enough to make the right security decisions without overwhelming analysts or increasing operational costs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In this article, ANY.RUN<\/a> explores how better threat visibility and automation can help US-based SOCs achieve this, using a real phishing investigation and metrics to demonstrate how faster triage translates into greater ROI from existing SOC investments<\/p>\n\n\n\n SOC teams face a difficult balancing act: alert volumes keep growing, but the time and resources available to investigate them remain limited. Analysts must sort through potentially harmless activity while ensuring that genuine threats don’t go unnoticed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Recent Microsoft research highlights the scale of the problem: <\/p>\n\n\n\n According to a 2026 Microsoft and Omdia study<\/a>, 42% of security alerts go uninvestigated, while 46% of respondents believe that more than half of their alerts are false positives. <\/p>\n\n\n\n This means SOC teams spend valuable time filtering out false alarms while a significant share of alerts never receive proper investigation, potentially leaving real threats undetected. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The consequences go beyond analyst fatigue. A total of 91% of surveyed security leaders reported serious security incidents caused by operational gaps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For US-based organizations, this highlights a critical priority: reduce the time spent on false positives and routine checks to improve efficiency and get greater value from your security investments. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Increasing SOC ROI starts with helping analysts make accurate decisions faster, without adding unnecessary manual work or operational costs. According to ANY.RUN data, two capabilities have proved to make most difference: visibility into actual threat behavior and automation of repetitive investigation steps<\/strong>. That’s what helps Tier 1 and Tier 2 analysts distinguish genuine threats from false positives, prioritize incidents, and decide when further investigation or response is needed:<\/p>\n\n\n\n These numbers are achieved through accessible, automated behavioral analysis of URL and file submissions offered by ANY.RUN. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\nKey Takeaways <\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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The SOC Efficiency Challenge: What the Numbers Reveal <\/h2>\n\n\n\n
How Visibility and Automation Helps SOCs Increase ROI <\/h2>\n\n\n\n
It takes providing analysts with enough information to make accurate decisions for them to avoid spending unnecessary time on manual checks and switching between security solutions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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