Token economics became a serious conversation the moment the industry realized we'd been getting an unreasonably generous discount from AI vendors. Now that free tiers are shrinking and usage caps are showing up everywhere, teams have started rationing tokens the way they once rationed analyst hours.
Every SOC runs on prioritization and there are always more alerts than analysts can investigate thoroughly. That's an unavoidable reality. But the incidents a SOC waves through as low-risk aren't necessarily noise. They may be its most valuable untapped threat intelligence.
This is the argument we believe the security industry needs to have. Not just about whether AI works in the SOC (it does) but about who owns the SOC when AI runs it.
Choosing the right MDR is critical because it becomes your 24/7 monitoring capability, investigation team, escalation layer, and force multiplier for the stack you already own.
Current security operations incidents take too long to investigate and tools don’t talk to each other the way they should. There needs to be a better way to get an operational layer that’s supposed to tie it together.
