Autonomous Decision Making in the SOC: What It Actually Means


Practitioner interviews
3 perspectives on why existing security stacks are breaking, and what trustworthy AI in operations actually requires.
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Darius Iakabos
Technical Solution Architect
“SOAR was built for predictable workflows. SOC reality isn’t predictable.”
Why SOAR’s scaling ceiling isn’t compute — it’s the playbook maintenance burden — and what replaces it.

Alina Marcu, PhD
Chief Data Scientist
“AI without governance isn’t intelligence. It’s exposure.”
What a Trust Layer actually does — and why grounded decisions, drift control, and rollback are the price of putting AI in front of operations.

Denis Stefan
AI Engineer
“An agentic investigation works when the agent knows what it doesn’t know.”
How agentic investigations actually run end-to-end — structured outputs, decision-model guardrails, and verification at every step.
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