Topic: The Autonomous SOC: How Agentic AI Is Reshaping Cyber Defense
Abstract: Security Operations Centers (SOCs) are rapidly evolving as artificial intelligence moves beyond conventional detection and automation toward agentic AI capable of reasoning, coordinating activities, investigating threats, and taking action. This transition has the potential to transform how security teams detect, investigate, and respond to cyber threats, while also raising important questions around autonomy, oversight, trust, and accountability. This webinar examines the rise of the Autonomous SOC and how agentic AI is reshaping modern cyber defense. The discussion will explore how AI agents can support security operations through alert triage, threat investigation, threat hunting, correlation, enrichment, incident response, and security orchestration. The session will also examine the challenges of introducing greater autonomy into security operations, including false positives, excessive permissions, unpredictable agent behavior, data exposure, decision accountability, and human oversight. Join us to understand how organizations can establish appropriate guardrails, define levels of AI autonomy, and incorporate human validation into critical security decisions.
Key Takeaways:
- Transition from traditional SOC automation to AI-augmented and autonomous security operations.
- Examine how agentic AI can transform incident response and create the greatest value across the SOC workflow.
- Understand the risks of autonomous security actions and AI-driven decision-making.
- Establish suitable levels of autonomy and human oversight for different SOC activities.
- Measure AI’s impact on SOC efficiency and productivity.
- Develop a roadmap toward an autonomous SOC without compromising security, accountability, or resilience.
Speaker:
Michael Shost, Enterprise AI, Delivery, Security & Transformation Executive and Founder, Shost Advisory Group
Bio: Michael Shost is an executive leader in Enterprise AI, Enterprise Delivery, and Enterprise Security, with more than 25 years of experience turning strategy into governed, secure, measurable outcomes. As an EC-Council Certified Chief Information Security Officer (C|CISO) and Certified Ethical Hacker (C|EH), he brings a security leader’s discipline and an attacker’s mindset to how organizations adopt and scale AI.
Michael serves as Principal, Enterprise Delivery AI & Governance at Symbotic (NASDAQ: SYM), a leader in AI-enabled robotics and warehouse automation, where he architects the enterprise delivery measurement and governance operating layer, and the applied AI and agentic automation that runs on it, so that every decision, forecast, and AI output traces to trusted, governed data. His current work focuses on the governance, security, and delivery of enterprise AI: building the controls, accountability, and execution discipline that make AI investments achieve their forecasted ROI. He was previously a key leader in a $70B financial services firm’s enterprise AI adoption, from strategy through rollout, and led enterprise security initiatives aligning security investment with business risk and strategy. He also co-founded an AI/ML algorithmic trading venture and served as its CISO, leading security, governance, and analytics through its IP sale.
Michael is Founder and Managing Principal of Shost Advisory Group and the architect of DeliveryOS™, an Agentic AI-driven Enterprise Delivery operating model. He has built four enterprise PMOs, governed portfolios valued in the hundreds of millions, and augmented the capabilities of several mature PMOs by integrating AI/ML and predictive analytics.
He serves on EC-Council’s C|RAGE Advisory Board and is a strategic advisor to TrueProject, Bitdefender, EC-Council, and others. He also holds PMI’s CAIPM, PMOCP, PMP, ACP, and RMP certifications. Michael is an international bestselling co-author, a LinkedIn Top Voice, and delivered four EC-Council CyberTalks in 2026.
