New 3 SOC Challenges You Need To Solve Before 2026 2025

2026 will mark a pivotal shift in cybersecurity. Threat actors are moving from experimenting with AI to making it their primary weapon, using it to scale attacks, automate reconnaissance, and craft hyper-realistic social engineering campaigns.

Global world instability, coupled with rapid technological advancement, will force security teams to adapt not just their defensive technologies but their entire workforce approach. The average SOC already processes about 11,000 alerts daily, but the volume and sophistication of threats are accelerating. For business leaders, this translates to direct impacts on operational continuity, regulatory compliance, and bottom-line financials.

SOCs that can't keep pace won't just struggle; they'll fail spectacularly. Solve these three core issues now, or pay dearly later.

Attackers have mastered evasion. ClickFix campaigns trick employees into pasting malicious PowerShell commands by themselves. LOLBins are abused to hide malicious behavior. Multi-stage phishing hides behind QR codes, CAPTCHAs, rewritten URLs, and fake installers. Traditional sandboxes stall because they can't click "Next," solve challenges, or follow human-dependent flows. Result? Low detection rates for the exact threats exploding in 2025 and beyond.

ANY.RUN's Interactive Sandbox with Automated Interactivity uses machine learning to automatically interact with malware samples, bypassing CAPTCHAs on phishing sites and completing necessary actions to force malware execution. The platform doesn't just observe, it actively engages with threats the way a human analyst would, but at machine speed.

Through Smart Content Analysis, the sandbox automatically identifies and detonates key components at each stage of the attack chain. It extracts URLs from QR codes, removes security rewrites from modified links, bypasses multi-stage redirects, processes email attachments, and executes payloads hidden within archives.

The business impact is immediate. By revealing the full attack chain in real time, ANY.RUN enables SOC teams to uncover entire attack sequences, retrieve IOCs, and refine detection rules within seconds rather than hours.

Thousands of daily alerts, mostly false positives. An average SOC handles 11,000 alerts daily, with only 19% worth investigating, according to the 2024 SANS SOC Survey. Tier 1 analysts drown in noise, escalating everything because they lack context. Every alert becomes a research project. Every investigation starts from zero. Burnou

Source: The Hacker News