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From Investigation Failures to Reliable SOC Agents: Understanding and Improving LLM-Based Alert Triage
Security operations centers (SOCs) must triage large volumes of alerts, most of which are benign, while missed attacks can remain uninvestigated. Tool-using large language model (LLM) agents can retrieve evidence during triage, but it remains unclear how reasoning strategies determine what to gather and when an investi …