Security Operations Center (SOC) outcomes in the age of AI

For all the hype around AI and agentic Security Operations Center (SOC) solutions, what truly matters comes down to two questions:

• What threats can you detect today that you couldn’t before?
• What existing threats can you now detect consistently and provably faster?

There’s no shortage of benefits to leveraging AI across a cybersecurity program, and it’s easy to get lost in everything AI can do. But job number one for any SOC is detecting and responding to cybersecurity threats, and it doesn’t matter much how this is achieved (i.e., I don’t care if it’s humans or robots), so long as it’s effective.

Whether you’re a SOC manager, analyst, or buyer evaluating AI or agentic SOC solutions, working backwards from what your SOC is already supposed to deliver cuts through virtually all of the AI-related hype and noise.