SOC Automation
Decision Models
Agentic AI
SOAR
Arcanna: The Foundation for an Evolving SOC
David PearsonJuly 18, 20258 min read


What an agentic investigation actually looks like — and what it takes to make one trustworthy enough for production. Denis Stefan walks through the four guardrails that separate agentic AI demos from systems you can actually run in a SOC.
SOAR hit its ceiling. Playbook sprawl, LLM inconsistency, and headcount-driven scaling broke the model. Here's what the next layer of SOC automation looks like.
An analyst opens a queue of hundreds of low-priority alerts — what's actually going wrong, and can AI fix it? Denis Stefan, AI Engineer at Arcanna, breaks down why rule tuning, SOAR, and LLM assistants stall, and what an agentic investigation runs step by step.