Indicator of Compromise: The SOC Playbook
Based on Kaspersky's 2025 compromise-assessment findings, enterprises failed to catch 60% of incidents because their current tools generated no high-confidence alerts. An indicator of compromise has value, yet static matching by itself will not dependably expose an attacker who has learned to merge with normal activity. This distinction is important to any SOC using a SIEM, EDR, or XDR platform. An IOC can link a...