Post by Mitiga

"AI SOC" is the new "next-gen." Both phrases became furniture before anyone agreed what they meant. Next week if you're at the Gartner Security & Risk Management Summit, you'll probably hear it everywhere. Most of the time it means a chat interface bolted onto an alert queue. Sometimes it means a summarization model that turns sixteen lines of telemetry into a paragraph. Occasionally it means something real. The real version has a name. AIDR — AI Detection and Response — is the operating model that the SOC has to actually run when AI is three things at once: 1. A tool the SOC uses. 2. An asset the SOC defends. 3. A capability the attacker has. The first two are where every vendor wants to talk. The third is where most programs aren't ready. Attackers are already using AI to move faster than your investigation. AI in the SOC has to operate on forensic truth across cloud, SaaS, identity, and AI. If it doesn't, you're not running an AI SOC. You're running a faster guess.