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Stopping breaches at machine speed demands agents, not alerts
Cybersecurity threats have dramatically increased in volume and sophistication due to AI, overwhelming traditional Security Operations Centers. The old ticket-and-investigate model is no longer effective, requiring more analysts than many organizations can support. To address this, DXC Technology, in partnership with 7AI, has launched the DXC Agentic Security Operations Center. This new SOC integrates autonomous AI agents to handle threat triage, investigation, and response at scale. Testing on DXC's own SOC revealed significant improvements, including an 80% reduction in tier-1 analyst time and a 67% decrease in mean time to respond. This represents a fundamental shift from automated responses to adaptive, contextual, and end-to-end agentic security. The AI agents uniquely evaluate each alert, learning and adapting from past incidents. DXC's Agentic SOC eliminates manual processing bottlenecks, expecting to save significant investigation time per incident. While organizations may face emotional and operational hurdles in adopting AI, it is presented as an essential evolution for survival in cybersecurity. Successful implementation requires top-level sponsorship and can be viewed as simply augmenting human analyst capabilities.
