Threat actors used to need days or weeks to exploit a vulnerability. Now AI lets them do it in seconds. Most security teams are already buried. Too many tools, too many alerts, manual processes that can't keep pace, and break-glass changes that get made and forgotten. Keeping everything configured and optimized correctly is a full-time job on its own. Nancy Phillips, Chief Information Security Officer at Ensemble Health Partners: "I want my teams doing the innovative stuff. Not the mundane, repeatable stuff.".

Modern SOCs face a difficult reality: attackers are moving faster while analysts are being asked to investigate more alerts than ever. Learn how agentic triage helps security teams move from alert overload to evidence-backed investigations. Rather than relying on opaque AI outputs, the approach uses expert-written playbooks and exposes the underlying queries and evidence so analysts can verify conclusions against raw network data.

Modern adversaries do not break in loudly anymore. They log in, blend in, and move faster than most security teams can respond. In CrowdStrike’s 2026 Global Threat Report, the fastest observed breakout time was just 27 seconds, while 82% of detections were malware-free. Traditional defenses were not built for attacks that look like normal activity. This lightboard session breaks down why defenders are struggling to keep up, how modern adversaries operate across identities and cloud environments, and why the gap between intelligence and action continues to grow.