NightBeacon CMD: The Glass-Box SOC Workbench That Keeps Humans in Command

July 15th, 2026, at 1 PM EDT

Attackers don't wait for your queue to clear; they're counting on you to stay buried in the busywork.

Most analysts burn around 40 minutes on an alert assembling context across tools before anyone can make a call, and the real threats lie waiting behind the false ones. You can't hire your way out of that. The only fix left is to shrink the work every alert demands.

David Kennedy developed the solution to address those demands by building NightBeacon CMD. NightBeacon CMD is the SOC workbench Binary Defense runs its own 24/7 operation on, now available for any SOC to operate. Your analysts get the exact surface our analysts work every shift off of, proven and built on real threats in our live SOC. NightBeacon CMD does the triage before your analyst ever opens the ticket. It assembles the context, correlates the related alarms into one case, and lands it verdict-ready. The busywork is gone. Your team arrives to decide, not to assemble the case. Then NightBeacon CMD shows you all the work behind what it's presented to you. Every verdict is a glass box: the evidence, the reasoning, the steps, mapped to MITRE ATT&CK and ready to stand before a board or an auditor. Your analysts never say "the AI said so." They make every call.

What you'll see live:

• A walkthrough of CMD in action, the same workbench our SOC runs on
• A case landing verdict-ready, the busywork already done before anyone opens it
• What we mean by a glass box: how CMD reaches each verdict, with the evidence behind it
• How a hundred alarms and the pivoting across tools to investigate them, collapse into one case with one verdict

Hosted by Jason Vest, CTO at Binary Defense. Featuring David Kennedy (DK), Founder and CEO, and Aaron Estes, VP of Product Management and Software Engineering.