Name: 2025 State of the SOC Report: The Impact of AI in SOCs
Start: 2025-05-13T18:00:00Z
End: 2025-05-13T18:00:50.000Z
Location: BrightTALK
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Adlumin, an N-able Company, delivers enterprise-grade cybersecurity to organizations of all sizes through its powerful Security Operations as a Service platform. With an agnostic approach, Adlumin seamlessly integrates with your existing stack and offers flexible deployment options—whether self-managed or fully managed by our experts. Our mission is to empower businesses to take control of their digital security by making advanced protection accessible, adaptable, and effective.


In this on-demand session, Jim Waggoner and Lewis Pope break down the latest cyber incidents making headlines and explain what they mean for businesses of all sizes. From ransomware hitting critical services to supply chain compromises in widely used software ecosystems, the discussion highlights both persistent and opportunistic attackers, their evolving tactics, and the growing “as-a-service” criminal marketplace. 

Whether you’re an MSP protecting clients or an IT leader responsible for organizational resilience, this session arms you with actionable steps to strengthen defenses and respond to today’s fast-moving threats.

Inside the Headlines: How Threat Actors Are Exploiting Businesses Like Yours

From credential abuse and ransomware to cyber extortion and unpatched vulnerabilities, small and midsized businesses (SMBs) are 3x more likely to be targeted than large enterprises due to resource disparities.

Join us for our 2025 Threat Report webinar and get a data-driven reality check on the evolving threat landscape targeting SMBs, exposing the gaps, trends, and real-world consequences organizations can no longer afford to ignore.

Combining threat intelligence from across the N-able and Adlumin ecosystems, Kevin O’Conner, Director of Threat Research, and Jim Waggoner, VP of Product Management, will share significant takeaways, trends, and vulnerabilities from the new 2025 Threat Report including:

· Top SMB threats in 2025

· Current trends in the SMB threat landscape

· Real-world SMB incidents and takeaways

· Threats that are real vs. just buzz

Whether you're a security practitioner, IT leader, or executive decision-maker, this webinar will deliver the context and clarity you need to assess your risk, strengthen your defenses, and build lasting cyber resilience.

2025 Threat Report Insights

Backups have been the last line of defense against cyberthreats—but today, they’re increasingly becoming the first target. We’ll cover how the cyberthreat landscape is evolving, three primary attack vectors used by modern threat actors, and ways to proactively defend.

Featured speakers:
- Keith Young, Principle Solutions Architect
- Stefan Voss, VP of Product Management

Data Resilience: Best Practices, from Attack Vectors to Remediation

AI-powered MDR makes security teams nimbler and more effective. In this session we’ll unpack ways AI helps highlight what really matters, how modern MDR has become an extension of your team, getting practical support from generative AI, and hear real stories from the field.

Featured speakers:
Robert Johnston
VP, GM Adlumin

Security Operations and Resilience for the Modern Threat Landscape

IT and SecOps are converging in a critical shift for modern endpoint protection. We’ll explore key drivers of this shift, why proactive and continuous endpoint hardening is vital, as well as practical strategies.

Featured Speakers:
- Lewis Pope, Head Nerd, Sec Ops
- Jason Murphy, Head Nerd, IT Ops

Beyond Defense: Accomplishing Endpoint Resilience

Once overlooked by threat actors, small and mid-market businesses today face the same sophisticated attacks as large enterprises. N‑able Chief Technology and Product Officer Mike Adler will explore what it takes to build true end-to-end resilience, outlining a holistic approach spanning the full attack lifecycle: minimizing the attack surface before an incident, reducing operational impact during an attack, and ensuring business continuity after.

Featured Speaker:
- Mike Adler, EVP, Chief Technology and Product Officer, N‑able

The N‑able Vision for End-to-End Cyber Resilience

Cyber resilience is crucial in today’s dynamic threat landscape. Our panel of leading cyber security voices will explore how organizations can rise to the challenge of these rapidly evolving risks. Topics will include the latest threat intelligence, the necessity of end-to-end cyber resilience, and lessons from research findings and real-world insights.

Featured Speakers:
- Francis Odum, Cybersecurity Instructor and Founder of Software Analyst Cybersecurity Research
- Kevin O’Connor, Director of Threat Research, N‑able
- Vinod Paul, President, Managed Services, Align

Security Roundtable: Discussing 5 Key Findings from Our 2025 Threat Report

Discover how the rapidly evolving cyber threat landscape is reshaping the way organizations think about security. In this session, Sarah Armstrong-Smith will explore why building end-to-end cyber resilience has become mission critical—and how businesses can prepare for the challenges ahead.

Featured Speaker:
Sarah Armstrong-Smith, Former Chief Security Advisor for Europe, Microsoft

Preparing for Tomorrow’s Threats Today: The Critical Need for End-to-End Cyber Resilience

The tools that got you here won’t get you where you need to go.

If you’re still relying on legacy backup tools, bloated hardware, and time-draining admin work, you’re not just stuck, you’re falling behind. Our new MSP Growth Playbook reveals how outdated backup strategies are eroding your margins, hindering growth, and leaving your customers exposed.

In this unapologetically practical session, we’ll show you what high-growth MSPs are doing differently and how you can shift your backup from bottleneck to breakthrough.

You’ll learn:
- How to slash admin time by up to 90% and free your techs for higher-value work
- Why cloud-first, image-free backup is transforming margins for thousands of MSPs
- How to repurpose your data center instead of letting it drain profit
- What “ransomware resilience by design” really looks like with immutable, isolated backups
- How Cove’s predictable pricing model puts an end to cloud billing surprises

This isn’t about swapping one vendor for another. It’s about rethinking your entire approach to backup and unlocking time, margin, and flexibility that’s been buried under outdated systems.

Watch now if you’re ready to grow smarter.

Free Download - The MSP Growth Playbook

Rethink Backup or Get Left Behind - The MSP Growth Playbook

Choosing the right backup solution is never just about features - it’s about outcomes. In this live “Hear from a Peer” session, we spoke with Dave Brown, Director of Cloud Services at CSCM IT Solutions, a West Midlands-based MSP delivering IT services across the UK and beyond.

Dave has spent 15 years growing within CSCM, and he’s led their shift to Cove Data Protection. In this candid interview, he’ll share:
• Why CSCM moved away from traditional backup tools
• The operational and commercial impact of switching to Cove
• How Cove helps them deliver faster recovery and reduce support overhead
• Tips for other MSPs considering a change

If you’re still managing legacy backup, juggling multiple tools, or just not convinced by cloud-first options – this is your chance to hear directly from a partner who’s been there.

Watch to see what’s possible with Cove Data Protection.

Hear from a Peer! How CSCM Transformed Backup with Cove

IT teams and MSPs are under constant pressure to detect threats early - but threat hunting often feels like a black box.

In this webinar, Jim Waggoner and Kevin O’Connor guide you through a hands-on threat hunting session, showing how they identify, investigate, and surface hidden threats across cloud and endpoint environments.

You’ll learn:
- What threat hunting actually is (and how it differs from investigation)
- How to uncover threats hiding in normal traffic
- Why correlation across identity and endpoint data matters
- What sets apart a mature, effective threat hunting capability

Whether you’re new to the concept or looking to deepen your technical knowledge, this session will give you the clarity and confidence to act on threats more effectively.

Threat Hunting Explained: See It in Action, Learn How It Works

Ransomware is evolving faster than ever, outpacing traditional defenses and putting your critical data at risk. Are you confident in your backup and recovery strategy?

Join us for a session designed for tech professionals who want to stop wasting time on failed backups and outdated systems and start focusing on cybersecurity strategies that actually work. Learn how to enhance cyber resilience, prevent costly data loss, and free up IT resources for high-impact projects.

Don’t wait until it’s too late — learn how to fortify your cybersecurity strategy!

Strengthen Cyber Resilience & Stay Ahead of Ransomware - Socitm & N-able

The Security Operations Center (SOC) is at an AI-fueled inflection point, facing an increasing volume, velocity, and sophistication of threats from cybercriminals armed with AI tools. To combat these challenges, many SOCs have turned to AI and ML tools, but the balance between AI’s potential and its risks remains a pressing issue — especially for small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs).  

Join us as we share the findings of Adlumin’s inaugural State of the SOC Report and provide a deeper look at how the Adlumin SOC is responding to today's cybersecurity threats. Will Ledesma, Director of MDR and SOC team leader at N-able, and Jim Waggoner, VP of Product Management at N-able, will share key insights from our State of the SOC Report including: 

- Where threats are coming from
- Benefits and challenges of AI  
- How AI has shaped and will shape the future of the SOC 
- Building the SOC of the future

This webinar is a must for any cybersecurity or IT professional. All registrants will receive an exclusive copy of the State of the SOC report.

2025 State of the SOC Report: The Impact of AI in SOCs

N‑able is bringing together top industry experts for a partner-exclusive fireside chat series—designed to help MSPs and IT teams stay ahead of evolving cyber threats. Each month, we’ll feature a new specialist tackling critical topics like incident response, cyber resilience, compliance, and security blind spots that could be putting your business—and your customers—at risk.

For our March event, host David Weeks welcomes Ollie Spence, CEO of CybaVerse, a leader in cybersecurity innovation.

Ollie has built CybaVerse into a globally recognized, award-winning cybersecurity company, trusted by thousands of businesses worldwide. He’s passionate about helping MSPs and IT teams strengthen their security posture with automation and cutting-edge strategies.

In this session, David and Ollie will break down:
- The biggest security gaps MSPs and IT teams often overlook—and how to fix them
- The latest cyber threats targeting businesses today and what future-savvy teams are doing to stay protected
- Practical, scalable security strategies you can implement right away

If you’re responsible for protecting business-critical systems, customer data, or ensuring compliance, this session is for you.

The Cyber Experts Series – Oliver Spence, CEO, CybaVerse

As the cyber-threat landscape continues to evolve in sophistication and frequency—75% of pros surveyed by Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) reported a ransomware attack in the last year—businesses struggle to protect ever-growing, distributed application and data environments. This is due in part to siloed, app-specific protection measures that obscure, rather than grant, security visibility. 
 
In this webinar, ESG Practice Director Scott Sinclair, and Chris Groot and Stefan Voss from Cove, explore how traditional data protection methodologies struggle to keep pace with today’s cyber resilience expectations, and the critical role that data operations efficiency plays in protecting business data.
 
Watch now to:
• View data protection spending trends (56% are prioritizing data protection spend).
• Explore the importance of data movement and management in maintaining recovery SLAs.
• Benefit from an optimized approach to data protection.
• Unpack the key differentiators of Cove Data Protection.

Speakers:
• Scott Sinclair, Practice Director, Enterprise Strategy Group
• Chris Groot, General Manager, Cove Data Protection, N-able
• Stefan Voss, VP of Product Management, Cove Data Protection, N-able

The importance of data efficiency in optimizing cyber resilience and data protection

In this webinar, Charles Weaver, CEO and co-founder of MSPAlliance, and Jim Waggoner, VP of product management for security at N‑able, took an in-depth look at today’s rapidly evolving threat landscape. As global cybersecurity concerns intensify, this session focused on the key areas where policymakers are placing their greatest attention. With hostile nation-state actors and cybercriminals increasingly targeting national critical infrastructure, understanding the current threat landscape is more important than ever.

Weaver and Waggoner also explored why Managed Service Providers (MSPs) are essential to national and global security efforts. As trusted technology partners, certified and competent MSPs are uniquely positioned to safeguard not just the infrastructure itself, but also the adjacent vendors and smaller contractors that are often exploited as points of vulnerability. From government initiatives to private sector collaboration, this webinar underscores the critical role MSPs play in ensuring the resilience and protection of infrastructure around the world.

MSPs on the Frontline

Traditional, human-centered SOCs have failed to keep pace. To move faster than today's adversaries, you must transform security operations. See the Future With Cortex

Join Palo Alto Networks to delve into the power of AI in the realm of cybersecurity. We will explore Cortex XSIAM®️ 2.0 — a new way to run the SOC — with an automation-first approach strengthened with AI. Hear from our SecOps expert about how you can leverage an automation-first, AI-powered approach to achieve SOC platform convergence. The Cortex XSIAM platform harnesses the power of AI to detect threats in near-real time and prevent incidents with minimal or no manual effort.

SecOps in the Age of AI | The Future of SecOps with Cortex XSIAM

Web application environments are more complex than ever. Many span multiple clouds, often include containers, are connected via APIs, and delivered via CDNs. While exploits against known vulnerabilities remain common, advanced campaigns use a variety of tactics to compromise web applications. An abundance of tools claiming to address these challenges has left many security teams unclear as to where to focus their attention. On top of this, security teams are worried about how to address increased usage of genAI in development, and attacks that leverage AI. Join John Grady and Melinda Marks as they discuss recent research on the application protection market and modern application security to help security teams solve the challenges they face.

Trends in Application Security and Increasing AI Adoption

Generative AI (GenAI) could contribute $2.6 trillion to $4.4 trillion annually to the global economy according to consulting firm McKinsey, but achieving business goals requires using GenAI in a trustworthy and secure manner. As enterprise business units pour resources to drive innovation, security teams need to avoid compliance violations and data loss. Security for GenAI is a many-layered cake requiring security teams to consider everything from the (sensitive) data informing the model to prompt responses that might result in (sensitive) data exfiltration. Join Todd Thiemann as he discusses recent research on data resilience and data loss prevention in the context of GenAI.

Data and Identity Security for GenAI Infrastructure: Facilitating Innovation While Avoiding Compromises

The craft of software engineering, and thus the organizational risk that accompanies building applications, is always evolving. From mainframes to web and mobile, waterfall to agile, monoliths to microservices, bare-metal to DevOps and cloud, the past several years have seen massive disruptions to the ways software is developed, and the security tools and processes needed to manage emerging threats have often lagged behind.

We are now in the midst of another generational shift in the way applications are created; this time away from human-centered software development and toward a new world of machine-generated code, large language models, prompt engineering, and AI agents writing and managing software autonomously. This new landscape includes an entirely novel set of attack vectors that the application security practices of yesterday are not equipped to handle.

Just as the methodology of DevSecOps evolved to manage the new risks of DevOps-oriented software practice, a new framework is needed to identify, prioritize, remediate and manage the new classes of vulnerabilities being introduced rapidly into AI-native applications.

Join Snyk as we…

• Review the novel risks posed by AI-native software, and why existing application security testing tools and processes are not up to the task.
• Understand how roles and responsibilities are evolving quickly, and what it means for security that building software no longer requires knowledge of writing code.
• Discuss the ideal workflows for managing software risk in an agent-centric, machine-first SDLC.
• Define the pillars and practices of AITrustOps, the security readiness framework necessary to understand and mitigate AI-native software risk.

The Road to AITrustOps: Software Security Readiness for the Emerging AI Threat Landscape

The introduction of AI has created an imperative for the transformation of virtually every business system. This means every aspect of apps and infrastructure are in transition, leaving security pros to react to a massively changing attack surface. How will security teams respond? Where are security leaders focusing first? How will security strategies need to change to respond to this critical transformation? Join Dave Gruber, Principal Analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group as he shares a fresh industry perspective and data from his recent research on this topic.

AI-led Security Operations Strategies: Are You Keeping Up?

Cybersecurity has traditionally focused on identifying, analyzing, and mitigating vulnerabilities. However, as attackers evolve, including utilizing AI, the world of vulnerability management must undergo a massive transformation. This presentation will explore how AI-powered systems can reshape each facet of cyber risk and vulnerability management, improving both defensive capabilities and hacker tactics. This webinar will teach you the innovations driving this new approach, the emerging threats resulting from AI-enhanced attacks, and the future of risk management in an AI-driven world.

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