Overfed and Undernourished: The Modern SOC's Decision Crisis

We've spent twenty years building security programs designed to answer one question: "What happened?" The result is an industry drowning in telemetry, dashboards, alerts, threat intelligence, attack paths, and now AI-generated recommendations. We've never had more information, yet many security teams still struggle to prioritize risk, make decisions, and respond effectively when it matters most. Maybe the problem isn't visibility. Maybe we've confused collecting information with understanding it. In this session, we'll challenge the conventional wisdom that more data leads to better security and explore how modern SOCs have become overfed on information but undernourished on context, ownership, and decision-making. Through real-world examples and a new way of thinking about security operations, attendees will learn why the future belongs to organizations that can answer a different question: not "What happened?" but "What should we do next?" This isn't a talk about more tools, more AI, or more visibility. It's a talk about better decisions and why they may be the most overlooked security control in your organization.