The future SOC will be built around AI agents: Charting the transformation of cyber defence with Securonix’s Zubair Chowgale
AI is rapidly transforming SOCs, promising to automate everything from threat detection and incident investigation to remediation. Yet as enterprises rush to embrace AI-powered security tools, a fundamental question of how much autonomy should organisations be willing to hand over to machines still remains.
The debate is becoming increasingly relevant as security teams worldwide struggle with an overwhelming volume of alerts, expanding attack surfaces, and a chronic shortage of skilled cybersecurity professionals. For many organisations, AI is no longer viewed as an experimental technology but as a necessity for managing modern security operations.
However, industry experts argue that despite advances in agentic AI, cybersecurity remains a field where human judgement cannot be completely removed from the equation.
“AI should optimise people, not eliminate them,” says Zubair Chowgale, Director of Sales Engineering for EMEA & APJ at Securonix. “If everything is left entirely to autonomous agents, there is always the risk...
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