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How a Global Airline Scaled Automation Across Their Security Program

For most security teams, automation is a folder of brittle scripts that one or two people know how to run. At one of the world's largest airlines, it has become the operating layer for the entire security program.

How Blink is helping customers respond to PHP2Shell

Blink has deployed an exposure workflow and a dedicated response board in customer environments, adapting each to the security tools and evidence available.

Automate PHP2Shell Hunting with BlinkOps

Late on Tuesday, October 21, PHP announced an urgent fix for two critical vulnerabilities, which can allow an attacker to take over a web server remotely, without logging in. Both vulnerabilities have a CVSS score of 9.2 and are critical for security teams to patch. Here’s what happened, what you should do next, and how BlinkOps can help.

What Is a Security Control Plane? And Do You Need One Above Your SIEM and EDR

A security control plane is the layer that decides and executes actions across your security tools under policy. The security data plane (SIEM, security data lake, EDR) collects, stores, and detects, while the control plane turns that signal into governed action.

Your AI Agents Don’t Need a New Identity Program. Extend the One You Have.

AI agents and MCP connections authenticate with the same API tokens, OAuth grants, and service accounts as any other integration. New research shows how many of them sit outside basic identity governance, and how to bring them back in.

Agentic SOC Platforms in 2026: 11 Vendors Compared and Ranked

A comparison of 11 platforms, scored on the engineering service behind them, the solutions that arrive ready to configure, and their ability to connect investigation to response.

What Is an Agentic Security Operations Platform (ASOP)?

How ASOP differs from AI SOC and Agentic SOC, why it sits on the control plane, and how you keep control of it.

What Is Alert Triage? A Complete Guide for SOC Teams

A practical guide to alert triage: what it is, how the process works, who owns it, and how AI is changing it when kept under a harness with human oversight and full auditability.

What Makes an AI Security Agent Production-Ready?

Building an AI security agent is no longer the hard part. Getting one to investigate an alert, call a few tools, and produce a convincing verdict is now well within reach for most teams. The harder problem is making that agent reliable enough to run continuously against production systems, without creating new operational risk.

Why AI SOC Is Becoming a Feature, Not a Category

Yes. AI SOC is commoditizing. What was a differentiator in 2025 is now an expectation any vendor holding alert data can claim, which turns autonomous triage into a feature rather than a standalone category. The durable advantage is moving to whoever owns the full loop, from signal to resolution, with reasoning bounded inside a harness and humans in the loop. AI SOC did not fail. It moved the bottleneck from detection to decision.

Autonomous SOC Explained: From Alert Triage to Full Response

An autonomous SOC pairs deterministic workflows with reasoning agents to triage, investigate, and respond. Analysts move to Tier 3 incidents, DFIR, and security engineering.

How Coterie Insurance Cut SOC Incident Resolution Time by 50%

Coterie Insurance used BlinkOps to scale security operations without adding headcount. The team reduced mean time to resolve (MTTR) security operations center (SOC) incidents by approximately 50%.

AI SOC vs Traditional SOC: Which "Traditional" Are You Actually Running?

Most comparisons of AI SOC vs traditional SOC get the baseline wrong. They describe a fully manual SOC, all human analysts and alert queues, and then compare it against agentic AI. That SOC is the 2003 SOC. It still exists, but it's not that common anymore.

BlinkOps Achieves ISO/IEC 42001 Certification: Building Trust in Agentic AI

Security teams are being asked to hand more and more real work over to AI, not just alerts and dashboards, but actual investigation and response actions inside their environments. That shift raises a fundamental question for every CISO evaluating an AI SOC vendor: How do we know this AI is governed responsibly?

Black Hat 2026: The Rise of AI SOC

Four shifts driving vendors from all different markets - from SIEM, SOAR, EDR, and network - toward AI SOC

BlinkOps Deepens Microsoft Partnership With Bring Your Own Subscription for Foundry

We're thrilled to announce Bring Your Own Subscription for Microsoft Foundry, a new capability that gives Blink customers full control over their data boundaries, compliance logging, and cloud spend allocation, without sacrificing the execution speed and quality you expect from the Blink platform.

AI SOC vs SOAR: What Is Actually Different in 2026

SOAR executes the playbooks your team writes. An AI SOC investigates alerts on its own, reasoning through context rather than following scripted decision trees. That’s the core difference, but the implications for how you staff, scale, and operate your SOC run much deeper.

77% of Organizations Use AI for Cybersecurity, but Most AI SOC Programs Still Underperform

New data shows most AI SOC programs underperform because teams skip the foundation. See the 3 priorities CISOs need on their 2026 AI agenda.

AI SOC for Security Leaders

How to Reduce Risk, Match Attacker Speed, and Cut Tool Sprawl

What Is Security Automation?

Security automation executes repeatable security procedures, including alert triage, incident response, and compliance checks, without manual effort. Learn what to automate, which tool types to consider, how AI agents fit in, and how to get started.

What Is SOC Automation?

SOC automation applies workflows and AI agents to run repetitive security operations center work: alert triage, enrichment, and response. Agents reason and workflows execute inside a platform-enforced harness, with human-in-the-loop control and full auditability. It is the SOC-scoped slice of the broader security automation category.

Top 10 AI SOC Vendors in 2026: A Practitioner's Comparison

An honest comparison of the 10 best AI SOC platforms in 2026, with transparent scoring, real pricing models (not invented numbers), and guidance on when a competitor is the better buy.

Enterprise Claude governance with your SIEM and BlinkOps

A reference architecture for governing Claude across the enterprise - Compliance API, OpenTelemetry, SIEM detection, and BlinkOps correlation and response.

What Is an Agent Harness, and Why Does It Make or Break Your AI Agents?

An agent harness is the framework that turns an LLM into a reliable, production-ready agent. It's the role, the tools, the context, the guardrails, the execution layer, the human checkpoints, and the audit trail. Without it, LLMs improvise. With it, they execute real work. This is the foundation of BlinkOps' Agentic Security Operations Platform (ASOP).

Patching Can't Keep Up With Mythos. BlinkOps Agents Can.

A few weeks ago, Anthropic announced Claude Mythos. One AI model, one team, in seven weeks, found more than 2000 zero-day vulnerabilities. That's 30% of the world's entire annual output prior to AI. Fox News

From Playbooks to Micro-Agents

Playbooks Don’t Think: Replacing SOAR with Agentic Workflows

How to Replace SOAR with an Agentic SOC Platform

Why Security Leaders Are Moving From SOAR to Agentic Security Operations

Alert Fatigue Is Not Your Problem. Case Fragmentation Is

I work in post-sale professional services at BlinkOps. I spend my days inside security operations across a lot of different organizations. Different sizes, different stacks, different maturity levels. But the same pattern keeps showing up.

Beyond Legacy SOAR: How A Global Insurer Achieved 30-Second Incident Response With BlinkOps' Agentic Automation

A large insurance and reinsurance provider that manages billions of dollars in premiums and serves customers in multiple countries shared their story about improving security processes.

What Is Agentic SOC? Why AI SOC and SOC AI Are the Same Shift

Agentic SOC, AI SOC, SOC AI. The industry is arguing about the label right now. That is usually a signal that something real is happening, even if people do not fully understand it yet.

Why Your MCP Agents Fail in Production (And How to Fix It)

MCP Architecture Problems: Context Window Saturation and Tool Result Noise

Leading AI Transformation for Security

We've recently secured over $100M in funding, and I want to be clear about why we've taken this step: the math in cybersecurity is broken.

How I Gave My SOC Team Their Time Back with a Few Digital Teammates

If you run a security operations team, you know the daily reality. Your best analysts, the ones you hired to be expert threat hunters, are spending most of their time on anything but that.

BlinkOps Named to Fortune’s Prestigious 2026 Cyber 60 List for Second Consecutive Year

Recognition Validates BlinkOps' Continued Innovation in Agentic Security Automation.

BlinkOps and Our Partners Are Redefining Cybersecurity Automation

Today marks a pivotal moment for BlinkOps as we proudly announce the launch of our Global Partner Program, an initiative designed to empower organizations to unlock the full potential of agentic AI.

Micro-Agents vs. Monolithic AI: Why Smaller is Better

The era of agentic AI is no longer a distant vision; it’s the next critical transformation for cybersecurity.

Using BlinkOps Case Management to Actually Move the Needle in Vulnerability Management

Anyone who’s run a Vulnerability Management (VM) program knows the drill: scanners light up with thousands of findings, the queue keeps growing, and teams get stuck debating what to fix first. By the time tickets make it to engineering, half of them are stale.

BlinkOps is a proud participant in the Microsoft Security Store Partner Ecosystem

BlinkOps today announced its inclusion in the Microsoft Security Store Partner Ecosystem.

SOAR Platforms in 2026: The Top 9 Ranked and Compared

Written for the people who build and run the playbooks, not the people who buy the analyst report.

BlinkOps Partners with Microsoft: Transforming Security Operations Through Automation

BlinkOps has announced an expansion of its collaboration with Microsoft, with new integrations for Microsoft Sentinel now available on the Azure Marketplace.

How Spectro Cloud Replaced Manual Handoffs with Slack-Native Execution Across Dev, CS, and HR

Spectro Cloud is a fast-growing infrastructure technology company with a team of more than 250 employees.

Human Security Saves 100+ Hours of Manual Work with BlinkOps

Human Security deploys over 40 automated workflows in less than 2 weeks, saving 100+ hours of manual security and audit work.

BlinkOps Announces Key Collaboration With Microsoft Sentinel to Provide Agentic Workflow Automation for Security Teams

Now available in the Azure Marketplace, BlinkOps enables Microsoft Sentinel users to build and deploy customized agentic workflow automations.

BlinkOps closes $50 million Series B funding round led by Eyal Ofer’s O.G. Venture Partners.

Funding brings total investment to $90 million as dozens of Fortune 500 customers adopt its No-Code Security Micro-Agents Builder

What is AI SOC? A Complete Guide

Learn what AI SOCs are, how they work, and the benefits and challenges of using them.

Larry H. Miller Company Frees Up 40+ Hours a Week with BlinkOps

How a Small Cybersecurity Team Streamlined Endpoint Compliance, Licensing Audits, and Help Desk Workflows.

5 Powerful Automations You Can Build with BlinkOps + ThreatQuotient

Explore five BlinkOps + ThreatQuotient automations that enrich IOCs, block threats, send intel digests, auto-generate detections, and accelerate response.

Automating Security and Compliance with BlinkOps + Acronis XDR

Discover how BlinkOps integrates with Acronis XDR to automate security response, backup remediation, and compliance reporting. Reduce manual effort and respond to threats faster with no-code workflows.

SecOps AI Agents: Hype or Game Changer?

Every few years, we get a new savior: SIEM, SOAR, XDR, AI. But this time, the hype machine around AI agents might actually be on to something. If you’re in SecOps and not at least curious about agentic automation, you’re probably still fighting alert fatigue with duct tape and Python scripts.

Security Automation Best Practices: A Guide

Learn top security automation best practices and how BlinkOps helps streamline workflows, reduce MTTR, and boost compliance.

Accelerating Security Outcomes: 2025 State of AI-Driven Security Automation

Discover how AI-driven automation is transforming the SOC in 2025. Explore key findings, barriers, and best practices from 1,000 security leaders.

BlinkOps + Twilio: Automating Security Communications and Verification

Find out how connecting Twilio with BlinkOps can give you instant security alerts, automated incident handling, and easy user verification processes. See how no-code automation helps security teams respond faster and makes compliance easier.

Enterprise Workflow Automation: Getting Started

Learn what enterprise workflow automation is, how it works, and how to implement it to improve your operations.

AI Workflow Automation: What It Is and How to Get Started

Learn how AI workflow automation works, its benefits, and how to start using it to streamline security and IT operations.

Automating Zero Trust Enforcement with BlinkOps + Zscaler

Learn how BlinkOps integrates with Zscaler to automate zero trust policy enforcement, accelerate threat response, and reduce manual effort. Strengthen your security posture with real-time detection, remediation, and compliance reporting.

13 Benefits of Workflow Automation

Discover 13 key benefits of workflow automation, from improved efficiency to better compliance, and how Blink Ops helps make it possible.

Low-Code Workflow Automation: A Detailed Guide

Explore low-code workflow automation, how it compares to RPA and no-code, and how Blink Ops simplifies security automation with AI.

5 Powerful Automations You Can Build with BlinkOps + Okta

Learn about 5 effective identity management automations you can create with BlinkOps and Okta. These automations make IAM tasks easier, ensure compliance, and save you hours of manual work.

What Is SOAR Automation? A Detailed Overview

SOAR (security orchestration, automation, and response) is a set of tools used in cybersecurity to help companies find, manage, and solve cyber threats more efficiently. Many security tasks can be done automatically with SOAR, which makes jobs easier and faster. This article will explain how SOAR automation works, with its features and benefits. We'll also look at some challenges and limitations it may present.

Celebrate National Password Day 2025 by Automating Password Security

Celebrate National Password Day (May 1st 2025) by strengthening your organization's security posture. Discover three Blink workflows to enforce MFA compliance, automate password rotation reminders, and detect compromised credentials.

Top Automations for Risk Reviews with BlinkOps + SecurityScorecard

Learn about 4 easy ways to simplify third-party risk reviews using BlinkOps and SecurityScorecard. Find out how to keep track of vendor ratings, apply risk rules, and start workflows in tools like ServiceNow and Slack - all automatically.

BlinkOps Launches the First No-Code Security Agent Builder Platform For Enterprise Teams

BlinkOps Security Agent Builder enables organizations to create unlimited agents that can perform any task or role, custom-tailored to their specific needs.

Why We Built Security Agent Builder: Because One-Size-Fits-All AI Is a Myth

Over the past year, we’ve all watched the rise of AI agents. From simple chatbots to sophisticated copilots, the idea of pre-made AI agents is now everywhere—and every vendor seems to be racing to give you a “ready-to-go” solution.

Workflow Wednesday: 5 Workflows to Automate Penetration Testing

Automate penetration testing with Blink Ops to check credentials, find assets, scan for vulnerabilities, and test web security. Use tools like HIBP, Censys, Shodan, Tenable, OWASP ZAP, and Nuclei to detect threats faster.

12 Security Automation Tools Every Organization Needs

Security automation tools work by using scripts, AI, and ML to automatically detect, investigate, and respond to security threats.

SOAR Replacement: A Complete Explanation

Learn about the importance of SOAR replacement, its benefits, best practices and some current replacements and future developments.

BDO MDR Chooses BlinkOps to Slash Manual Work by 40% closing 50% of Alerts and speeding response

Discover how BDO Managed Detection and Response services in Israel replaced their legacy SOAR, cut alerts by 50%, and boosted MDR response times using BlinkOps’ no-code security automation.

5 Threat Hunting Workflows to Supercharge Your Cybersecurity

Boost your cybersecurity posture with 5 automated threat hunting workflows on Blink Ops, including phishing defense, IOC scanning, and vulnerability monitoring.

Creating an Effective SOC Playbook

Learn how to create an effective SOC playbook to streamline security operations, enhance incident response, and improve threat detection.

SecOps vs. SOC: The Differences Explained

Learn the key differences between SecOps vs SOC, their roles in cybersecurity, benefits, and how they work together to strengthen security.

Time To Automation (TTA): The single most important security metric for 2025

Security teams are losing the battle against evolving threats due to a critical skills shortage and outdated SOAR playbooks. AI-driven security automation is the future—accelerate Time to Automation (TTA) and stay ahead of attackers with Blink’s no-code platform. Automate in seconds, not months.

6 Top GRC (Governance, Risk & Compliance) Tools

In this article, you'll learn about GRC tools and will see a list of the top 6 GRC tools that can help your organization remain threatproof.

The Impact of Data Silos on AI and Security Operations

Data silos undermine AI-driven security operations, making threat detection and governance ineffective. Explore strategies to integrate data, strengthen analytics, and improve cyber resilience.

From Legacy SOAR to AI-Driven Security: How Time to Automation Became the New Standard

Legacy SOAR is out—AI-driven security automation is in. Learn why Time to Automation (TTA) is the new benchmark for SecOps and how AI is transforming security operations.

Case Management in Security: Definition and Best Practices

In this post, we explore what security case management entails, how it works, factors to consider, and best practices for its implementation.

How AI-Driven Security Automation Helps End Tool Sprawl - A Detailed Guide

Discover how AI-driven security automation eliminates tool sprawl, simplify cybersecurity operations, and boost efficiency with automation platforms like Blink.

NIST, MITRE ATT&CK? Choosing a SOC Framework

Learn about security operations center frameworks and their benefits. Check out a list of 7 SOC frameworks to enhance your security.

Understand SOC Processes and Best Practices

How do Security Operations Centers (SOCs) operate, their key SOC process, their best practices, and much more?

BlinkOps Achieves 400% YoY Revenue Growth, Surpasses $50M in Total Funding

AI-Driven Security Automation Leader Achieves $50M in Funding, Doubles Headcount, and Accelerates Global Expansion and Product Innovation

BlinkOps Joins the 2025 Cyber 150: A Milestone Achievement

BlinkOps is named to the 2025 Cyber 150, recognizing the fastest-growing midsize cybersecurity companies. Learn more about our innovation and commitment to redefining security automation.

Weekly Workflow: From Threat to Quick Resolution

Unusual login attempts often signal an attempted account intrusion. In this workflow, we're going to show you how you can automate the process of securing user accounts when a suspicious login is detected.

How to Improve Your SaaS Cybersecurity Posture with Security Automation

Improve SaaS cybersecurity with security automation: streamline API key management, scan staging environments, and monitor AWS workflows effectively.

Weekly Workflow: Identity and Access Management

When an employee leaves a company, whether voluntarily or not, ensuring their access to company systems is promptly revoked is essential to maintain security.

Weekly Workflow: Just In Time Provisioning to an RDS Database

Here's how to use a Blink workflow to automate setting up an access lifespan in RDS databases using Just-In-Time provisioning.

Weekly Workflow: Automated CrowdStrike Update

The CrowdStrike security software update incident in July 2024 caused a major IT outage that affected various industries, from airlines to hospitals. This incident serves as a stark reminder of how quickly a seemingly routine process can lead to widespread disruptions and vulnerabilities. In this workflow, we're going to show you how you can schedule CrowdStrike, or any other updates to run when you want them to.

5 Ways AI-Powered Security Automation Makes Life Easier for SecOps Teams

See how AI automation makes life easier for SecOps teams—cutting down their busywork, reducing alert fatigue, and speeding up incident response times.

How Automation Helps Prevent Fraud

Discover how Blink helps combat fraud, enhances compliance, and stops ransomware, phishing, and BEC threats during this Fraud Awareness Week and beyond.

Threat Detection and Response (TDR): Tools & Best Practices

Discover essential threat detection & response tools, their working mechanisms, types, benefits, and best practices to protect your business effectively.

SIEM vs SOAR: Key Differences and Pros & Cons

Explore the key differences between SIEM and SOAR, their pros and cons, and how they complement each other to strengthen security operations.

How Blink Automates GRC Management

Simplify GRC management with Blink. Automate risk tracking, incident reporting, access reviews, and cloud compliance for efficient security operations.

Weekly Workflow: Automating Vulnerability Management with Blink and Wiz

Blink works alongside Wiz to empower security teams to create efficient, automated security procedures for evaluating, addressing, and documenting alerts from various security tools.

XDR vs SOAR: Key Differences, Benefits & Limitations

Explore the key differences, benefits, and limitations of XDR vs SOAR to choose the best security solution for your organization’s needs.

5 Steps to Building an Autonomous SOC with AI Augmentation

Modernize your SOC with AI in 5 steps: automate threat response, prioritize tools, enrich context, train teams, and streamline access management.

Weekly Workflow: How to Validate that All Azure Storage Accounts are Encrypted

Azure Storage Accounts offer a powerful cloud storage solution, but ensuring their encryption is important for comprehensive security. In this Weekly Workflow, we're going to look at how you can automate encryption checks for your Azure Storage Accounts.

How AI Will Impact Cybersecurity and Cybercrime in 2025

Explore predictions on AI’s impact on cybersecurity in 2025, from AI-powered scams to deepfakes and complex cyberthreats shaping the future of digital security.

How Blink Automations Simplify IAM Management for Security Teams

Automate IAM management in Blink: prevent privilege escalation, automate role based provisioning, monitor dormant accounts, and enforce policies.

How AI Will Improve Security Operations in 2025

Discover how AI will reshape security operations by 2025 with autonomous functions, AI-driven deception, and insider risk scoring. Explore the pros and cons.

3 Ways to Shift Left With Blink Ops Security Automation in the SDLC

Discover 3 ways to shift security left with Blink. Automate dependency vulnerability scans, Terraform security checks, and Postman API testing.

5 Ways Cybercriminals Are Exploiting Deepfakes in Cybercrime in 2024

Look at how deepfake technology is being used by cybercriminals to evade KYC procedures, perpetrate financial fraud, and initiate malicious schemes.

Top 5 Cloud Security Automations for SecOps Teams

Learn about 5 powerful cloud security automations with Blink Ops to simplify security operations like S3 bucket monitoring, subdomain takeover detection and failed EC2 login detection.