The future is flexible: Building an AI-ready SOC

Jackie McGuire

Principal Security Strategist

Elastic

AI is already part of most security operations, but very few teams would call their program mature. Security budgets are growing slower than IT overall, AI costs are hard to forecast, and models change every quarter. In July, a provider's safety filter refused to help Hugging Face's responders analyze an active attack. Few security leaders can afford to have their incident response depend on a single AI provider.

In this webinar, Jackie McGuire, senior director of security product marketing at Elastic, shares how to build a SOC strategy that holds up when the technology underneath it shifts. She'll cover what is safe to commit to now and what to keep flexible, why model choice is a resiliency and cost decision, how to let AI earn autonomy one class of work at a time, and which guardrails stand up in an audit. She'll also show how AlertZero by Elastic Security, now in tech preview, applies these principles. Agents answer every alert while your analysts make every consequential call, on the same platform, whether you run in the cloud, self-managed, or air-gapped.

You'll leave with:

• Three questions to test how exposed your SOC is if your model provider goes down or changes its policy
• A 90-day plan that turns an AI pilot into evidence you can take to your board
• How to pace AI adoption based on your team's size, data maturity, and risk tolerance