agentic AI isn’t just another automation tool—it reasons, adapts, and acts in alignment with organisational policy. It can:

Enable strategic planning. Daily posture assessments, tool rationalisation, and MITRE ATT&CK coverage analysis are translated into data‑backed roadmaps to inform funding and resourcing. At the same time, agentic AI simulates adjustments or additions to security tooling and detection capabilities. This allows SOC teams to adapt tools in the instance of an actual attack, learning from the scenario and strengthening security postures. CISOs benefit from intelligent insight that enables them to evaluate how proposed actions close gaps and improve security postures.

Accelerate investigations. Agentic AI streamlines the threat investigation process by automating case summaries, threat classification, and next‑step recommendations to triage faster, cut false positives, and ease analyst fatigue. This, in turn, closes the cybersecurity skills gap, adding value to SOC teams by decreasing burnout. Analysts at any level can move quickly from detection to resolution without starting from scratch, whilst reducing mean time to detect (MTTD) and mean time to respond (MTTR).

Illuminate through visualisation. Transforming natural‑language queries into insightful dashboards and trend visualisations gives clarity to raw telemetry without distracting noise. Based on this plain language prompt, the measures, dimensions, filters, and chart type are configured automatically to ease the analyst experience. Clear visualisation is about streamlining the security process to simplify dashboards to show CISOs what is impacting the network. Agentic AI provides actionable insights, direct pathways, and produces business-relevant terms for accessibility across an organisation.

Drive measurable maturity. Agentic AI enables security leaders and analyst teams to move beyond static reporting through benchmarking posture, tracking improvements, and packaging performance into board-ready business narratives. It delivers real-time, contextual insights that are aligned to business risk and outcomes. With the ability to generate executive-level summaries, surface trends, and simulate future scenarios, agentic AI helps CISOs justify security investments with clarity and confidence, while continuously strengthening their organisation’s security posture.

Augment the analyst experience. As CISOs evaluate AI adoption, many will favour human-in-the-loop solutions that guide decisions but keep analysts in control. The right agentic AI solutions will empower analysts through automation, not sideline them with it. Agentic AI holds the potential to anticipate security needs and propose solutions analysts may not have considered before. These capabilities help boost overall effectiveness by delivering an extra level of input to the SOC.

Validated Opportunities & Associated Risks

Why does it matter? Agentic AI helps shift SOCs from reactive to proactive. It complements human expertise, especially as pressure mounts on teams with limited bandwidth. The trend is gaining momentum.

But… security risks are real. Reports are clear: agentic AI introduces new vulnerabilities. From prompt injection and unauthorised action to identity issues, these autonomous systems demand rigorous governance. For instance, Microsoft released a patch in July 2025 addressing a path traversal flaw in its agentic browser initiative.

Frameworks now emerging, such as Forrester’s AEGIS (covering governance, identity, data, application security, threat management, and Zero Trust), offer meaningful guardrails for adopting agentic agents in responsible ways.

Driving Value with Agentic AI

Looking ahead, there’s no doubt that the threat landscape will continue to evolve and drive new challenges for security teams. Agentic AI isn’t a cure-all, but it offers a meaningful path forward for security leaders focused on results.

Whether the goal is to improve detection, retain talent, or justify SOC investment, AI agents have the potential to help CISOs upscale security operations. During a time when cyberthreats are more complex than ever, agentic AI holds the potential to help security leaders and their teams spend more time orchestrating strategy, not firefighting noise. The future belongs to those who can deploy agentic AI with both rigor and insight.