Alert volume passed what your analysts can work some time ago, and hiring is not the lever available. So, the question has moved from whether AI can triage to what has to be in place before it acts: what evidence it reasons over, what policy bounds it, what the audit trail looks like when it takes a response action, and who is accountable when it gets one wrong.

This discussion brings together security leaders and the people running detection and response daily, because the two see different halves of the problem. You compare where agentic AI is genuinely absorbing tier one and tier two load, where it has opened new exposure, and how peers are answering the board on AI in the SOC without giving up control.