Security teams are starting to treat AI like staff, and that means managing it
Ask anyone who has worked in a security operations center what the job actually involves, and you’ll hear a lot about alerts. Thousands of them, most of which turn out to be nothing. For the past decade, AI’s role has been to help with that pile: spot something odd, flag it, and leave the decision to a person. That arrangement is starting to break down.
The newer generation of AI tools, usually called agentic systems, doesn’t stop at the flag. Picture a strange login at 3 am. An older model would raise an alert. An agent can look up the device, check where it has logged in from before, compare it against threat intelligence feeds, conclude the account has been compromised, and suspend it, all before an analyst has opened the ticket. At that point, it’s fair to ask whether you’re still using a tool or supervising a colleague.
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