AI SOC FAQ
Common questions about AI SOC platforms, answered without the gloss.
What is an AI SOC?
A security operations center (SOC) where artificial intelligence performs detection, alert triage, investigation, and response work that analysts previously did by hand. The strongest implementations complete tasks and produce verdicts rather than summarizing alerts and handing them back.
How does an agentic SOC differ from an AI copilot?
An agentic SOC completes the work end to end and provides a reasoning trail, where a copilot stops at suggestions an analyst still has to act on. Exaforce runs task-specific AI agents called Exabots across detection, triage, investigation, response, and threat hunting, with analysts supervising them.
Does an AI SOC replace security analysts?
No. It removes manual enrichment, repetitive triage, and the tab-switching that fills an analyst's day, which returns their hours to work that needs judgment. Invisible reports more than six full-time equivalents of time returned per month. Invisible case study
Is Exaforce a SIEM?
No. Exaforce replaces the traditional SIEM, SOAR playbook, and MDR contract stack rather than joining it. Teams commonly run Exaforce alongside an existing SIEM to begin with, then consolidate once coverage is proven.
How accurate is it?
Customers report a 90% reduction in false positives and a 95% reduction in mean time to investigate (MTTI). Accton cut MTTI by 94%, from three hours to ten minutes. Exaforce claims consistency and explainability rather than perfection, and every verdict carries the reasoning that produced it. Accton case study
What does it cost compared with what we run now?
Customers report more than $600K in average savings against a traditional SOC stack. Commonwealth Fusion Systems cut log storage costs by 90%. Accton avoided more than $300K a year in added SOC headcount. [LINK NEEDED — Commonwealth Fusion Systems] Accton case study
Can someone else run it for us?
Yes. Exaforce MDR is a managed detection and response service operating the same Exabots, 24/7, with human oversight built into the workflow.
How long does onboarding take?
LottieFiles went from onboarding to first response in under 30 days. Fuze detected improper third-party cloud access within 24 hours of onboarding. LottieFiles and Fuze case study