a way to automate alert triage, threat investigation and eventually higher-level functions. According to IDC, agentic AI is on track to become mainstream infrastructure. The analyst firm expects 45% of organizations to have autonomous agents operating at scale across critical business functions by 2030. In enterprise SOCs, AI is already reshaping functions like alert triage, enrichment, data correlation, IOC validation and initial containment. It could soon move up the stack to take on more complex tasks like incident investigation, root cause analysis, and response. “AI acts as a force multiplier in the SOC,” says Nicole Carignan, senior VP, security and AI strategy at Darktrace. But harnes...