Microsoft Rebuilds the SOC With AI Agents to Fight Machine-Speed Cyberattacks
An Integrated Security Operations Center (ISOC) in Microsoft Defender, unifying security information and event management (SIEM) and threat-protection capabilities in a platform designed for AI-assisted, continuous defense. The company's premise is direct: traditional SOC architectures cannot match adversaries that use AI agents to automate reconnaissance, intrusion execution, lateral movement, and operational decision-making at machine speed.
