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Your SOC Has Too Many IOCs: How to Cut Feed Noise, Prioritize What Matters, and Improve Response 

Most SOCs measure threat intelligence the same way they measure storage: bigger is better. A feed that delivers two million indicators a month looks more impressive on a vendor scorecard than one that delivers two hundred thousand. Dashboards proudly display IOC counts in the millions.  Procurement decisions get justified by “coverage.” And yet, ask almost any SOC analyst how many of those indicators they’ve actually looked at, matched against a log, or used to close an investigation, and the answer is usually somewhere between “not many” and “no idea.”  This is the quiet contradiction at the center of modern threat intelligence: teams are drowning in indicators while starving for usable intelligence. Volume and value have become decoupled, and most security programs haven’t noticed because nobody is measuring the difference.  The Difference Between Threat Data and Threat Intelligence  An IOC is not automatically useful

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