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Thursday 1st October 2026
Rethinking Your SOC: What Today’s Threats Demand
A busy Security Operations Centre isn’t necessarily an effective one. As threats change, security leaders need confidence that their service can do more than monitor activity and raise alerts. It needs to respond, adapt, and prove its defences work.
Join Cian Heasley, Principal Consultant at Acumen Cyber, for a roundtable dinner exploring where traditional SOC approaches fall short and what a more effective service looks like. Whether you’re assessing the effectiveness of your current security operations or exploring a new SOC service, the discussion will help you understand what good looks like and what to expect from your provider.
What you’ll take away:
- An inside view of today’s threats and what could come next. First-hand insight into the threats we’re seeing from inside the SOC, where conventional approaches fall short, and the developments security teams should prepare for.
- Know what your SOC should deliver and prove. See why continuous validation against real-world attack techniques is essential to proving detection effectiveness, and how an engineering-led approach enables faster response and ongoing improvements to your defences.
- Practical insight into reducing exposure and response time. Know where automated response can act immediately or accelerate human intervention, and how vulnerability management helps address weaknesses before they’re exploited.
Roundtable Dinner Format
18.00 - 18.40
Networking with drinks
18.40 - 19.00
Starters served, introductions
19.00 - 19.30
Presentation
19.30 - 20.30
Dinner and networking
20.30 - 21.00
Closing remarks and formal close
About the sponsor
Acumen Cyber
Acumen is a UK-based cyber security specialist, focused entirely on protecting organisations from cyber threats and helping them build greater resilience.
At the heart of its business is its engineer-led 24/7 managed detection and response service. Around it, Acumen provides continuous security testing, threat intelligence, incident response, governance and compliance, and strategic cyber security advisory - giving customers access to the expertise they need across their security journey.
Acumen’s approach is built around taking responsibility and continually improving security, rather than simply providing technology or advice. It tests defences against real-world attack techniques, identifies weaknesses and turns what it learns into practical improvements.
Focused solely on cyber security, Acumen combines specialist expertise, leading technology and its own engineering to solve complex security challenges. Its experts work directly with customers, building an understanding of their environment and priorities and turning that knowledge into practical action that reduces risk and strengthens their security.
Mark Robertson
Co-founder & CEO
Acumen Cyber