EY refers to the global organization, and may refer to one or more, of the member firms of Ernst & Young Global Limited, each of which is a separate legal entity. Ernst & Young Global Limited, a UK company limited by guarantee, does not provide services to clients. How EY can help - Seamless, strategic cybersecurity operations can give you the confidence to focus on innovation and growth. EY Cybersecurity Managed Services can help. Read more - Find out how EY Technology Managed Services can help organizations improve operational efficiency, fuel innovation and build the confidence to transform. Read more AI-enabled cyber attacks are increasing the urgency for telecom organizations to rethink how they detect, investigate and respond to threats. Attackers are using automation and AI to accelerate reconnaissance, identify vulnerabilities and execute attacks in minutes or seconds. As the time between discovery and exploitation shrinks, security teams have less room for manual investigation, fragmented decision-making or delayed response. For telecoms, the challenge is especially acute. Large distributed environments, legacy systems, high volumes of customer and operational data, third-party ecosystems, ongoing M&A activity and nation-state threat exposure all increase operational risk. These factors make telecom environments difficult to secure at speed and scale. They also create significant operational complexity. A single security incident may span enterprise IT, telecom networks, operational technology (OT), cloud platforms, customer-facing systems and third-party networks, requiring security teams to correlate vast amounts of data and make decisions under significant time pressure. The result is a widening gap between the pace of AI-enabled threats and the capacity of traditional security operations centers (SOCs) to respond. Closing that gap requires more than new cybersecurity tools. It requires a clearer view of where the current SOC model is under strain, where automation can reduce risk and where human judgment