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Simbian is hosting the world’s first AI SOC Championship

This March, Simbian is hosting the world’s first AI SOC Championship—a battle of skills where you’ll command your AI to outsmart a relentless wave of cybersecurity alerts. Prove your expertise and claim your spot among the world's top AI SOC Champions to win your share of the $10,000 prize pool.  

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CEO Feature: Apple has removed its strongest data protection from UK users -- why and what does it mean?

In a recent BetaNews article, Simbian CEO Ambuj Kumar weighs in on Apple's decision to scale back its strongest data protection for UK users. He explores the broader implications for consumer privacy and security, warning: 

"Any such backdoor would also be attractive to hackers looking to exploit it, ultimately weakening security for everyone."

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Hot New Features 

Investigation Guides enable your Simbian SOC Agent to absorb your organization’s specific practices and tribal knowledge. While your agent comes with built-in expertise for investigation and response, you can now customize its logic by leaving plain-text instructions—no coding required. 

Whenever a new alert is ingested, the agent consults your investigation guides, picks the relevant steps, and fuses it with its own knowledge to completely tailor the investigation steps. 

You + Simbian SOC Agent = A super-analyst working at machine speed, combining Simbian’s intelligence with your unique expertise to deeply investigate every alert. 

In the latest episode, Jason Keirstead speaks with Augusto Barros, Vice President of Product Marketing at Secureonix, on security data lakes, “legacy AI”, and the wider impact of LLMs and AI on the SIEM space.  

Catch the episode here :

>How to Judge Security Products That Claim to Use AI:  Harry Wetherald breaks down how to cut through the AI hype, offering five key questions to evaluate vendor claims. 

>Are SOC Metrics Still Useful?: Forrester’s Allie Mellen and Google Cloud’s Anton Chuvakin explore what SOC metrics truly mean in 2025’s evolving security landscape. 

>Black Basta chat logs exposed: A massive 200,000-message trove exposes the inner workings of ransomware gang Black Basta, revealing both the sophistication as well as the banality of the group’s methods. 

>Anthropic and Google Release New Coding Assistants on the Same Day:   

On Feb 24, both Anthropic (Claude Code) and Google (Gemini Code Assist) launched competing AI coding tools—each with unique capabilities and pricing advantages.