India, Sept. 21 -- Effective Security Operations Centre (SOC) performance in an artificial intelligence-driven environment is measured by risk reduction, analyst capacity, and decision quality, not merely by the number of alerts processed or data ingested.

Achieving this requires AI to be integrated across data pipelines, workflows and governance rather than deployed as a standalone layer.

Security Operations Centres (SOCs) have long been measured by activity-alerts processed, incidents closed, and data ingested. These metrics once reflected effectiveness in environments where visibility was limited, and response speed was the primary concern. That model is now under strain.

Across modern enterprises, the scale and architecture of secu...