Uploaded August 2026 | Updated September 2026, 1 hour ago
Carson Zimmerman (Microsoft, US)
The SOC of the future isn’t a glossy demo, nor a buzzword‑fueled AI hallucination. Rather, it is engineered to withstand complexity, scale, and burnout. This session confronts legacy models and shares hard‑earned lessons on evolving workflows, sustainable ops tempo, and design for human cognition, not just automation. It will challenge your thinking on what’s next, and how to evolve.
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Carson Zimmerman is the Chief Architect of Microsoft’s Security Operations Center (SOC), where he leads strategic initiatives to advance global threat detection and response. He is co-author of 11 Strategies of a World-Class Cybersecurity Operations Center, a widely adopted guide available freely at mitre.org/11Strategies. Previously at MITRE, Carson’s career spans the full spectrum of SOC roles—from tier 1 analyst, to engineer, to investigator, to SOC team lead.
Carson Zimmerman (Microsoft, US)
The SOC of the future isn’t a glossy demo, nor a buzzword‑fueled AI hallucination. Rather, it is engineered to withstand complexity, scale, and burnout. This session confronts legacy models and shares hard‑earned lessons on evolving workflows, sustainable ops tempo, and design for human cognition, not just automation. It will challenge your thinking on what’s next, and how to evolve.
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Carson Zimmerman is the Chief Architect of Microsoft’s Security Operations Center (SOC), where he leads strategic initiatives to advance global threat detection and response. He is co-author of 11 Strategies of a World-Class Cybersecurity Operations Center, a widely adopted guide available freely at mitre.org/11Strategies. Previously at MITRE, Carson’s career spans the full spectrum of SOC roles—from tier 1 analyst, to engineer, to investigator, to SOC team lead.
