From Assistive to Agentic: The AI Shift That's Redefining Threat Management

This report argues that security operations are shifting from assistive AI (summarization and decision support) to agentic AI that can autonomously orchestrate triage, containment, and continuous threat hunting; it highlights practical benefits, the need for broad bidirectional integrations across security tools, and governance requirements while warning of risks such as hallucinated context, prompt injection via untrusted telemetry, and the necessity of human-in-the-loop guardrails and auditable trails.