Within Texas and across the world, the complexities and demands of an institutional cybersecurity program are growing at an exponential pace, while the resources and sustained talent pools have become scarcer and more constrained. Since 1999 UT Austin’s Information Security Office has been pioneering the cybersecurity field through innovative research & the development of novel security automation to address growing cybersecurity challenges at Texas-sized scale. This talk will provide an overview of UT’s security approach with a focus on end-to-end incident response IR/SOC integration and automation with Panopticon SOAR. It will also include multiyear analysis of incident type, attack source and high/critical verified vulnerabilities across a large Texas-wide attack surface