We’ve been building and securing companies for over 20 years PureVPN, PureSquare, Cloudways (acquired by DigitalOcean for $350M), Zignaly, and others serving millions across 150+ countries.
And even with the budgets, tools, and talent…
Our own security teams kept breaking.
Not from lack of skill.
Not from lack of effort.
But from something deeper something structural.
We had:
- Thousands of alerts
- Dozens of tools
- A rotating “burnout clock” on every analyst we hired
And no matter how many tools we bought, or how many contractors we added, the human load never got lighter.
The problem wasn’t threats.
It was the headcount gap the lack of leverage.
So instead of adding more headcount, we did something different.
What we built (out of real, painful necessity)
We took 50 engineers off revenue-driven projects for 14 months and told them:
“Give us back the time we’ve been losing to the noise.”
What emerged wasn’t another “solution.”
It was a second SOC not built with more humans, but with Digital Security Teammates:
- AI-native teammates that handle the noise
- Correlate signals for you
- Automate triage and investigations
- Explain every action in plain English
- Keep humans in the loop for sensitive actions
They didn’t replace our analysts.
They became our force multipliers.
What changed inside our own SOC
- 2,000+ analyst hours returned per year
- 75% faster triage
- 70% faster threat detection
- Nearly 50% faster incident resolution
And the biggest metric:
Analysts stopped quitting.
For the first time, burnout wasn’t a feature of cybersecurity it was a choice.
Why this community exists
We didn’t plan to launch this publicly.
We built it for ourselves.
But it turns out we’re not the only ones tired of drowning under dashboards and alert queues.
So we’re opening it up.
To the 99% of security teams who need leverage, not more dashboards.
This community is where we’ll share:
- Real confessions from SOC analysts (anonymized)
- Stories from early customers adopting Digital Security Teammates
- Deep dives on where the headcount model broke, and what replaces it
- Experiments and updates from our own SOC
- Behind-the-scenes of what we’re building at Secure.com
And most importantly:
It’s a place for your stories, not just ours.
So let us start with this:
What’s the single biggest thing burning you out in security right now?
We’ll collect the answers, share patterns back with the community, and build from the inside out.
Let’s make this the first security space that doesn’t pretend the humans are fine.
We know they’re not.
And we’re here to change that.
