AI didn’t just make defenders faster. It made attackers faster too. The moment both sides got access to the same speed, speed stopped being the advantage.
With speed no longer separating attackers from defenders, the deciding factor moved somewhere else. Ask a CISO what’s actually kept agentic security out of reach, and it comes down to this: they can’t afford to build it, and even if they could, they’d struggle to trust it. Neither half of that problem outweighs the other. They’re the same problem, from two directions.
Coverage Across Our Entire Platform
We launched the Aurora Agentic SOC™ at RSA Conference 2026 as the largest commercial agentic SOC in the industry, and we haven’t slowed down since. The Aurora Superintelligence Platform now processes more than 10 trillion security events every week. We’ve resolved more than three million security cases and run over 200,000 investigations led by agents weekly, every one of them coordinated by our Swarm of Experts™.
Scaling that far only mattered to us if it came with a real commitment to delivering trust and value to our customers, not just bigger numbers. That commitment starts with what this actually costs to run.
What It Actually Costs to Build This Yourself
Most AI security tools price the way AI itself is priced: by consumption. Every additional event, every additional investigation, adds another line to the bill, right when an organization needs to scale its defenses the most. That’s a real reason agentic security stays out of reach for the organizations that need it most, not just a pricing detail.
We built the Aurora Agentic SOC to remove that trade-off. Customers get predictable pricing, unlimited data ingestion, and unlimited investigations, while we manage the underlying AI, infrastructure, and data on their behalf. It deploys in about 10 days, and it costs roughly 12 times less than building and maintaining the same capability yourself. Running security operations at enterprise scale shouldn’t require building at that scale yourself.
Why the Swarm Knows When to Ask for Help
Cost is only half the equation. There’s no cheap way to build agentic security yourself. The investment is real no matter who’s making it. And if you decide to make that investment, you still have to be able to trust what comes out the other end. In the 2026 SANS AI in Cybersecurity Survey, nearly two out of three security professionals said they’d received guidance generated by AI that they later found out was wrong. That’s the ceiling on how far fully autonomous security can go on its own.
We built the AI Trust Engine™ to answer that directly: a validation framework that governs how our agents behave, checks their decisions, and brings in a human at the right moment instead of after the fact. Today, the Swarm of Experts autonomously resolves more than 60% of case volume, closing those cases with high confidence.
For the rest, agents recognize when a case needs more context than they have and hand it to an analyst rather than guessing. Based on hundreds of thousands of investigations, roughly a third of complex cases benefit from that final human check. Every outcome, whether an agent closes it or an analyst reviews it, still passes through the AI Judge before it reaches a customer. The payoff shows up in something customers actually feel: an average of one security alert a day, not a queue they have to dig through to find the one that matters.
From Faster Alerts to Actions You Can Actually Trust
Speed hasn’t disappeared as a requirement. It isn’t the whole story anymore. The Aurora Agentic SOC resolves many investigations in as little as 12 seconds.
But speed alone only tells you how fast an alert moved. It doesn’t tell you whether anyone could act on it with confidence. Detecting a threat fast is half the win. The other half is whether the guidance that follows is good enough to act on right away.
That combination shows up in the numbers. Customers are resolving cases 26% faster year over year. They’re not just getting alerted faster. They’re resolving cases faster too.
See the Aurora Agentic SOC in Action
We’ll be at Black Hat USA, August 4 to 6, at booth 1564 in Las Vegas. Stop by to see the Aurora Agentic SOC in person and talk to our team about our portfolio of solutions.
We’ve also launched a new Agentic SOC Cost Calculator on our website, so you can see what building your own agentic SOC would actually cost before you commit to it doing it yourself. Be sure to test it out.
Disclaimer: This blog is provided for informational purposes only. It reflects general industry perspectives and the author’s views as of the publication date, including forward-looking statements about technology trends. Actual outcomes may differ based on attacker behavior, customer environments, and broader market and regulatory developments.
