The agentic SOC for today’s air-gapped environments: rethinking cyber defense in the age of AI
The threat landscape changed the moment generative artificial intelligence became broadly accessible.
Adversaries are no longer just nation-states and elite criminal organizations, but anyone with AI tools and a prompt. And the public sector agencies least equipped to respond to that shift are often the ones with the most sensitive missions.
For years, cybersecurity operations have been fundamentally about human analysts processing alerts, building context manually and making decisions under pressure. That model worked when attackers operated on human timeframes. It doesn’t hold when an adversary can compress reconnaissance, social engineering, malware development and exploit chaining into a single automated campaign.
According to a recent Five Eyes cyber agencies statement, the urgency is clear: AI is not a future consideration. It is here today and lowering barriers for malicious actors and increasing the speed and complexity of attacks, shrinking the window between vulnerability discovery and exploitation ever more quickly.
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