Build vs. Buy vs. Vibe: The AI in the SOC Debate

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For years, the verdict on DIY security tools was clear: don't.

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Only the Netflixes and Googles of the world had the engineering muscle to pull it off — everyone else eventually abandoned their homegrown SIEMs and security data lakes, leaving behind technical debt and a cautionary tale. But the rise of AI-assisted "vibe coding" is forcing a reexamination of that conventional wisdom. When a security analyst can describe detection logic in plain English and have working code in minutes, does the old calculus still hold? Or are we just finding faster ways to create the same long-term problems?

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Join former industry analysts Augusto Barros and Anton Chuvakin for a fun debate on whether AI has genuinely changed the build-vs-buy equation for security operations — with a walk through the memory lane of DIY SIEMs, detection engineering, SOAR, and beyond.

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We'll tackle:

• Why DIY security projects failed in the past — and whether those reasons still apply
• What vibe coding actually changes (and what it doesn't)
• The hidden costs of DIY that AI won't fix
• When building your own makes sense, and when it's still a trap

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