Workshop on SOC Operations and Construction (WOSOC) 2026 Accepted Papers

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A Usability Evaluation Method for SOC Tools Using a Simulated Operational Environment

Yukina Okazawa (Toho University), Akira Kanaoka (Toho University), Takumi Yamamoto (Mitsubishi Electric Corporation)

Before the Vicious Cycle Starts: Preventing Burnout Across SOC Roles Through Flow-Aligned Design

Kashyap Thimmaraju (Technische Universitat Berlin), Duc Anh Hoang (Technische Universitat Berlin), Souradip Nath (Arizona State University), Jaron Mink (Arizona State University), Gail-Joon Ahn (Arizona State University)

Bounded Autonomy in the SOC: Mitigating Hallucinations in Agentic Incident Response via Neurosymbolic Guardrails

Samuel Addington (California State University Long Beach)

Cognitive Threat Detection for SOC Operations: Automating Manipulation Tactic Analysis in Election Security

Keerthana Madhavan (School of Computer Science, University of Guelph, Canada), Luiza Antonie (School of Computer Science; CARE-AI, University of Guelph, Canada), Stacey D. Scott, School of Computer Science; CARE-AI, University of Guelph, Canada)

DSEF: DNS Synthetic Traffic Evaluation Framework

Jihye Kim (Research Institute CODE, University of the Bundeswehr Munich)

Experiences of Using Agentic AI to Fill Tooling Gaps in a Security Operations Center

Kritan Banstola (University of South Florida), Faayed Al Faisal (University of South Florida), Xinming Ou (University of South Florida)

Non-Disruptive Disruption: An Empirical Experience of Introducing LLMs in the SOC

Francis Hahn (University of South Florida), Mohd Mamoon (University of Kansas), Alexandru G. Bardas (University of Kansas), Michael Collins (University of Southern California – ISI), Jaclyn Lauren Dudek (University of Kansas), Daniel Lende (University of South Florida), Xinming Ou (University of South Florida), S. Raj Rajagopalan (Resideo Technologies)