How SOCs Improve Key Cybersecurity KPIs with Better Threat Analysis

Alert fatigue, slow detection, and delayed response times directly impact your team’s effectiveness and your organization’s risk posture. These problems often trace back to one thing: not having the right tools to understand threats quickly and clearly.

Most security teams are still stuck dealing with vague alerts or waiting for time-consuming manual analysis. What they need instead is instant visibility into how a threat behaves, what it targets, and how dangerous it really is.

Let’s discover how you can improve those Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) with faster, more effective threat analysis using the right tool.

The Right Solutions Can Transform Your Security Operations

When your team has access to clear, immediate threat insights, everything changes. Detection gets faster, responses become more precise, and analysts spend less time chasing dead ends.

The right solution can help you:

• Cut down alert noise and focus on real threats
• Reduce manual analysis and free up analyst time
• Improve detection accuracy with deeper behavioral visibility
• Speed up decision-making with context-rich threat data
• Strengthen overall SOC performance with scalable workflows

For instance, interactive sandboxes like ANY.RUN provides real-time visibility into how a threat behaves, from the moment it detonates to the tactics it uses, giving your team the clarity they need to act with confidence.

1.   Reduce Mean Time to Detect and Increase Detection Rate

Slow detection often comes down to one thing: a lack of visibility. Security teams waste time trying to understand what a file is doing, especially when threats hide behind user interaction or uncommon file types.

ANY.RUN solves this by combining real-time behaviour monitoring with safe, interactive analysis. Analysts can engage with suspicious files, just like they would on a real machine, while the sandbox captures every action and uncovers the full execution chain.

View analysis session with full attack chain

In the following analysis session, an SVG attack is exposed with a file pretending to be a PDF and containing several hidden components, such as a .si file and a malicious DLL.

ANY.RUN flags the sample as malicious (visible in the top-right corner) and displays the entire process tree on the right, showing how the payload was executed.

Why this is important for your SOC:

• Analysts don’t waste time guessing; they see exactly what happens from start to finish
• The process tree reveals each step of the attack, no reverse engineering needed
• Malicious behavior is detected automatically in minutes, not hours
• Teams can reduce Mean Time to Detect, avoid false negatives, and focus on real threats

Faster detection means faster response and that leads to measurable improvements in your security KPIs.

2.   Speed up Response and Inform Better Security Decisions

Fast detection is only part of the equation. To respond effectively, your team needs to understand what the threat is trying to do, where it’s headed, and how it fits into a broader attack chain.

ANY.RUN provides that context instantly, with detailed process data, automated TTP mapping, and support for API-based integrations that let you respond faster and smarter.

View analysis session with Keylogger

In this example, a Snake Keylogger sample is delivered through an archive file. ANY.RUN automatically extracts the file and detonates the payload inside a safe environment. Within seconds, the sandbox labels the session as malicious and highlights the exact process that dropped the keylogger.

To understand the attack’s scope, analysts simply click the MITRE ATT&CK tab. From there, they get a full breakdown of the tactics and techniques used, like credential theft, persistence via registry keys, and evasion through disabling event logs.

Why this is important for your SOC:

• The sandbox automatically extracts and detonates files; no manual unpacking needed
• Analysts can see TTPs instantly using MITRE ATT&CK, with no extra investigation overhead
• Security teams can automate responses based on the analysis results received through API integrations
• Insights are clear enough to act on immediately and detailed enough to support incident reports

When your team understands the threat’s intent, behaviour, and context upfront, they can move faster and respond with confidence.

3.   Enrich Threat Hunting and Proactive Defense

Stopping today’s alert is good but stopping tomorrow’s breach is better. ANY.RUN turns every analysis session into a springboard for proactive defence by putting all indicators and malware configs in one place.

Using the same Snake Keylogger sample:

Click IOC. Hashes, domains, IPs, file paths, and registry keys are collected automatically.

Open MalConf. The sandbox extracts embedded configuration data (C2 addresses, encryption keys, protocol details) that SIEMs rarely catch on their own.

Build detection rules. Feed those indicators into YARA, Sigma, or your EDR to hunt for related activity across the environment.

Why this is important for your SOC:

• Analysts spend seconds gathering IOCs instead of digging through logs.
• Threat hunters pivot faster, reducing the window of exposure.
• New rules based on real-world samples raise overall detection coverage without extra headcount.

With clear, consolidated threat intel from ANY.RUN, your team moves from reactive firefighting to proactive protection and your risk scores trend in the right direction.

Turn Detection into Decisive Action That Moves Your KPIs

Improving security KPIs is about giving your team the visibility and control to act with confidence, reduce time spent on false positives, and respond before damage is done.

With ANY.RUN’s interactive sandbox, your analysts can detect hidden threats in minutes, understand their full behaviour, map out TTPs instantly, and extract IOCs without delay. No time lost jumping between tools. Just clear, actionable insight from the first click to the final report.

Whether you’re aiming to reduce Mean Time to Detect, raise your detection rate, or strengthen your threat-hunting program, ANY.RUN makes your SOC faster, smarter, and more effective across every level.