AI SOC analyst
How the SecureOPS AI analyst triages, investigates, and scores alerts before your team sees them.
The AI SOC analyst is the layer between raw alerts and your team. Every alert that fires is investigated automatically — the same way a tier-1 analyst would work it, but in seconds.
What it does with every alert
- Gathers context — pulls related events for the same host, user, and process around the alert window.
- Checks threat intelligence — looks up file hashes, IPs, and domains against threat intelligence feeds.
- Assesses the asset — factors in asset criticality, exposure, and the user's role.
- Scores and summarizes — assigns a final severity and writes a plain-language investigation summary explaining what happened and why it matters.
- Recommends next steps — proposes containment or remediation actions appropriate to the finding.
The result is attached to the alert in the case queue. Nothing is hidden: every event and intel lookup the analyst used is linked from the summary, so a human can verify the reasoning.
Verdicts
| Verdict | Meaning | Default handling |
|---|---|---|
| Benign | Explained by normal activity | Auto-closed, logged for audit |
| Suspicious | Can't be fully explained; needs a human decision | Queued with context |
| Malicious | Strong evidence of a true positive | Escalated, notification sent |
Auto-close behavior is configurable per rule pack — you can require human review for everything if your compliance posture demands it.
Asking follow-up questions
Inside any case you can ask the analyst follow-up questions in natural language:
"Has this user logged in from this ASN before?"
"Show me every host that executed this hash in the last 30 days."
Answers come back as queries with results, so they're reproducible and auditable.
What it does not do
The AI analyst does not take destructive actions on its own. Containment steps — isolating a host, disabling an account, blocking an IP — are always presented as recommendations that a human approves, unless you explicitly enable an automation playbook for that specific action.