Most SOC budgets don’t reflect the true cost of running security operations. Budgets often include salaries, software, and infrastructure, but ignore the steady, compounding costs that drain time, money, and talent daily. Clearly, security teams are under fire. Tight budgets, a climbing volume of alerts, high analyst turnover, and more sophisticated threats put security teams in a bind. The processes behind the operations have not kept pace with current threats in terms of either speed or scale. The Hidden Costs Are Everywhere A SOC’s real cost doesn’t appear in a single line item. It builds up across people, processes, and…
Tom Findling
Tom Findling
Tom Findling is the co-founder and CEO of Conifers.ai. He is a strategic leader with a proven go-to-market, product, and data science track record. Having served as chief customer officer at IntSights (acquired by Rapid7) and as senior director of product at Rapid7, he brings a unique blend of strategic vision and execution to the table running large-scale operations. Additionally, he led go-to-market and product roles at VMware and SUS.