The SOC Capacity Crisis: Can AI Solve Cybersecurity’s Growing Gap Between Threats and Talent?

Financial institutions are facing a growing imbalance. Cyber threats are becoming more sophisticated and relentless, while experienced cybersecurity talent remains scarce. Traditional SOCs struggle to keep pace with increasing alert volumes, evolving attack techniques, and rising regulatory expectations. AI presents an opportunity to fundamentally reshape security operations. Rather than replacing analysts, AI can enhance their capabilities by automating repetitive work, surfacing meaningful insights, accelerating investigations, and improving response times across the security lifecycle. This executive roundtable will explore how banks and financial institutions can responsibly adopt AI within the SOC, measure its impact, address governance and compliance concerns, and build security operations that scale with both business growth and the evolving threat landscape.