Microsoft is pushing the SOC further toward an agentic operating model. ISOC brings SIEM, XDR, Threat Intelligence, automation and AI together directly inside the Microsoft Defender portal. 🤖 AI agents can investigate, reason and help take action 🔄 Detection, investigation and response become one continuous workflow 🧠 Humans move more toward decision-making, engineering and directing the defense ⚡ Some SIEM capabilities are available without starting with a traditional Sentinel deployment Microsoft describes ISOC as a foundation for the agentic SOC — and I think that wording matters. We are slowly moving away from the traditional model where L1/L2 analysts manually process endless queues of alerts. The future SOC will likely be built around security engineers + AI agents + automation, all operating on the same context. ISOC is currently in preview. In this preview phase, it is available to eligible Microsoft Defender Suite, Microsoft 365 E5 and E7 customers that don't already have an active Microsoft Sentinel workspace. Definitely something worth watching. 👉 Learn more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2026/09/23/reimagining-the-soc-for-the-agentic-era-in-microsoft-defender/

AM HAVING A CHALLENGE TO SET UP MY LAB

Am I can move forward! I help to set up my lab

Please help soc lab so i get a soc analyst job. I have just got security plus certificate but not getting job yet. i am burn-out with my current job.

This community is structured around AI, Cybersecurity and practical hands on experience. Now all of that is covered in first week. Before that it was covered deeper in different classrooms. For the first week you will now - Learn about Azure, SIEM, AI and more - Create Microsoft Sentinel for FREE - Ingest data inside your Lab - Generate Incidents with AI - Get FREE access to multiple AI models - Run AI assistant on incidents in Microsoft Sentinel https://www.skool.com/ai-cybersecurity-academy/classroom/e37352cd?md=2981823d47f0407bac2b90b54f58421f I plan to spend little bit more time on about page, before I move and start adding more content. I will keep you posted. 👊