Learning/growth at MSSP vs. internal SOC?

Seems like you are mostly just doing basic analysis/triage then escalating cases that clients usually close out as FP (if they even reply). I'd love to get into IR eventually but not sure how to learn enough to make it to that point (outside of getting SANS cert.

Are internal SOC positions much more involved with threat hunting and deep dives/investigations with some malware analysis included? I'd love to learn more in depth stuff about dynamic analysis of malware, using …

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