What Happens to MSSPs and MDRs in the Age of the AI-SOC?
Summary: AI-driven SOC platforms now automate alert triage, correlation, enrichment and response recommendations that MSSPs and MDRs have supplied for nearly two decades, and the article cites SACR's AI-SOC Landscape Report 2025 finding that 40% of alerts go uninvestigated and nine in ten reviewed alerts are false positives. It puts MSSP recurring costs starting from $100K annually against AI-SOC pricing typically starting at $30K, and cites IANS Security Budget Benchmark 2025 data that 54% of SOC leaders face flat or shrinking budgets.
Why it matters: The article states that under MSSP and MDR arrangements vendors detect and notify while customers still bear the breach consequences, and that 40% of alerts traditionally go uninvestigated. A security leader paying from $100K a year should weigh that accountability gap against the article's claim of a 60-80% reduction in mean time to respond after shifting to AI-first operations.
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