Making sense of the AI SOC market

This article examines the rise of the "AI SOC" market as a convergence of longstanding SOC alert overload and new AI/LLM capabilities, explaining how AI can augment detection (SIEM/XDR), triage/investigation (SOC), and response (SOAR). It emphasizes automated alert triage and investigation as the core focus of most offerings, provides evaluation criteria such as accuracy, speed, scale, noise reduction, and transparency, and presents Intezer’s AI-driven service as a way to reduce noise and escalate only a small fraction of alerts to human analysts while helping teams scale operations.