The dawn of agentic AI in security operations

The daily grind of sifting through endless alerts and repetitive tasks is burdening security teams. Too often, defenders struggle to keep up with evolving threats, but the rapid pace of AI advancement means it doesn’t have to be that way.

Today at the RSA Conference, as we introduce M-Trends 2025 and discuss how we’re boosting defenders, we’re also detailing our vision for how AI agents can help security operations.

Agentic AI promises a fundamental, tectonic shift for security teams, where intelligent agents work alongside human analysts to autonomously take on routine tasks, augment human decision-making, automate workflows and empower them to focus on what matters most: the complex investigations and strategic challenges that truly demand human expertise. 

The agentic AI future

While assistive AI primarily aids human analyst actions, agentic AI goes further and can independently identify, reason through, and dynamically execute tasks to accomplish goals — all ...