{"id":261265,"date":"2026-06-01T07:45:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T11:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/01\/ai-socs-will-still-need-soc-analysts-security-vendors-say\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T14:25:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T18:25:10","slug":"ai-socs-will-still-need-soc-analysts-security-vendors-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/01\/ai-socs-will-still-need-soc-analysts-security-vendors-say\/","title":{"rendered":"AI SOCs Will Still Need SOC Analysts, Security Vendors Say"},"content":{"rendered":"

AI SOCs Will Still Need SOC Analysts, Security Vendors Say<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.infosecurity-magazine.com\/news\/ai-soc-still-need-analysts\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Publish Date: 2026-06-01 07:45:00<\/a><\/p>\n

Source Domain: www.infosecurity-magazine.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Offerings of fully autonomous security operations centers (SOCs) are flourishing on the cybersecurity market and trigger anxiety about a future with empty desks.<\/p>\n

In reality, however, top security vendors exhibiting at Infosecurity Europe 2026 actually agree on one thing: AI won’t replace the SOC. It will replace the mind-numbing copy-pasting and routine ticket-taking.<\/p>\n

Speaking to Infosecurity, Brett Candon, VP of International at Dropzone AI, said AI is shifting the traditional multi-tiered SOC model into a leaner, smarter operation powered by accelerated \u2018tier-1.5\u2019 analysts and strategic engineers.<\/p>\n

AI SOC: A Glass Box, Not a Black Box<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Automation has promised to fix the SOC for over fifteen years, but vendors argue that true autonomy requires absolute transparency.<\/p>\n

Candon emphasized\u00a0that AI must be treated as a supportive “glass box” rather than a mysterious black box. The goal, he noted, is to replace heavy manual investigation work while logging every procedural step so human analysts can easily audit the machine’s rationale.<\/p>\n

Patricia Titus, Field CISO at Abnormal AI, agreed\u00a0that human-in-the-loop validation remains a non-negotiable safety net. Organizations still need sharp minds to verify that the machine is performing accurately.<\/p>\n

“You actually need someone who understands that to be able to go back and analyze \u00a0the data periodically to make sure the tool, the AI tool, is actually catching what you want it to catch,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Furthermore, an AI is only as good as the security data infrastructure supporting it. Yonni Shelmerdine, chief product officer at Vega Security, pointed\u00a0out that AI cannot bypass fundamental data architecture gaps. If critical security logs are frozen or filtered out due to high cloud storage costs, human engineering is required to fix the underlying pipeline.<\/p>\n

Shelmerdine warned\u00a0that if the data is gone, “no super-duper AI bot will be able to help.”<\/p>\n

Intern Tier-1 and Professional Tier-1.5 SOC Analysts<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Rather than…<\/p>\n

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