Even though we are all focused on the “here and now” of our busy cybersecurity world, today’s modern security operations center (SOC) has deep roots going back more than 50 years! The concept of a SOC has constantly evolved over time to meet new challenges and new adversaries. And new technologies seem to arrive every year which manage to improve the SOC’s response time but also tend to complicate the SOC’s working environment. Join this keynote for some thoughts about the characteristics of a highly-tuned SOC, as well as a few predictions about the human-centric future of the SOC.