Security Operations Research
Data-driven analysis of how enterprise SOC teams work, where they fail, and what structural changes improve outcomes.
Each paper addresses a specific operational problem — analyst workload, threat modeling methodology, or architectural gaps in the security stack. Written for security leaders and practitioners who need grounded analysis, not vendor positioning.
The Cost of an Alert
Why detection keeps improving while nobody measures what it costs. The hidden economics of security operations, where investigation cost accumulates, what to measure instead, and how to establish a defensible baseline.
Published Aug 17, 2026
The Human Firewall: SOC Analyst Workload Statistics
A data-driven analysis of alert volumes, triage costs, burnout rates, and the operational gap separating enterprise SOC teams from high-performing MSSPs.
Published Feb 17, 2026
Threat Modeling at Enterprise Scale: The Identity-First Revolution
Why asset-first threat modeling is obsolete and how identity-first graph analysis improves enterprise prioritization.
Published Mar 4, 2026
The Missing Layer in the Security Stack
Why Security Operations Requires an Alert Correlation Layer — the case for automatic cross-tool correlation as the missing step in the SOC stack.
Published Mar 18, 2026