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AI agents triaging, investigating and responding to alerts at machine speed, and staged automation with human oversight for high-impact decisions.
Exabeam is bringing AI-assisted operations to its on-premises LogRhythm SIEM and says its Nova agent triages cases 30 times faster than analysts. The speed figure is Exabeam's own measurement, and teams that keep data local still need to find out where the on-premises AI processing happens.
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According to Arctic Wolf, OpenAI's own evaluation found its newest GPT model able to exploit unknown vulnerabilities on its own, and the company has kept those capabilities with trusted partners without saying for how long.
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Arctic Wolf says compromised access now changes hands in 22 seconds, down from eight hours in 2022. The figure is unsourced in the post, but if it holds, the argument moves from hiring to delegation.
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Cisco Talos ran 66 model and reasoning pairings through security operations work and found refusals arriving where extra compute was supposed to help. That puts the guardrail layer inside the SOC's own test plan.
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Verizon's 2026 report puts full resolution of a known vulnerability at a 43-day median, with most of the CISA critical list still open. The remedy on offer speeds triage, not patching.
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Two years of SIEM ingestion cuts left the data layer that agentic detection will run on, and 24% of security leaders now rank visibility above staffing as their top barrier.
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