From Chasing Ghosts to Missed Attacks: Perspectives and Perceptions of SOC Practitioners on LLM Integration, Risks, and Readiness

arXiv:2608.00672 · cs.CR, cs.AI, cs.HC · Submitted 2026-08-01 · Read on arXiv

cs.CR, cs.AI, cs.HC

Submitted: 2026-08-01

Updated: 2026-10-12

Code: https://github.com/openai/whisper

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Hallucination — 15× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Fine-Tuning — 12× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• LLM Integration — 12× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• RAG — 9× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Security Operations Center — 8× in this paper
• Explainability — 7× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Adversarial Attacks — 5× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Generative AI — 5× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Threat Intelligence — 5× in this paper
• Verification — 5× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Alert Fatigue — 4× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Core — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Accountability — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Large Language Models (LLMs) — 3× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Machine Learning — 3× in this paper
• Benchmark — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Grounding — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Model Drift — 2× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Prompt Engineering — 2× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Accuracy — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Adam — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Artificial Intelligence (AI) — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• General Data Protection Regulation — 1× in this paper
• IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy — 1× in this paper
• Iterative Refinement — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Retrieval-Augmented Generation — 1× in this paper
• Trace — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• While Artificial Intelligence — 1× in this paper

Sources

• AI-Driven Guided Response for Security Operation Centers with Microsoft Copilot for Security
• Using LLMs to Automate Threat Intelligence Analysis Workflows in Security Operation Centers
• Large Language Models Are Unreliable for Cyber Threat Intelligence
• Towards Characterizing Cyber Networks with Large Language Models
• A Comprehensive Overview of Large Language Models (LLMs) for Cyber Defences: Opportunities and Directions
• Large Language Models for Cyber Security: A Systematic Literature Review
• LLMs in the SOC: An Empirical Study of Human-AI Collaboration in Security Operations Centres
• Cognitive Bias in Decision-Making with LLMs
• LessLeak-Bench: A First Investigation of Data Leakage in LLMs Across 83 Software Engineering Benchmarks

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