Critical Start's VP of Product and Principal Operations Engineer walk through their real-world approach to AI in the SOC including the Laws of AI, live agent demos, and honest TTI metrics.

"AI-first" SecOps sounds compelling — until it breaks at scale. Critical Start explains why deterministic systems belong in the first layer, and where AI actually belongs in the stack.

Critical Start's CTO shares field notes from Gartner SRM 2026 — breaking down how to choose between AI SecOps platforms and AI-enabled MDR based on your organization's maturity, headcount, and expertise.

The market is racing to put agentic AI into security operations. Critical Start has been building and hardening the foundation it requires for over a decade. Here's what that actually looks like.

Critical Start has released SOC AI, a production-proven framework of ten specialized agents that brings auditable, AI-led investigation, hunting, and response to MDR. Every action carries a complete audit trail, and the platform's deterministic foundation keeps the SOC at full capacity even if AI is ever unavailable.

Attackers are combining fake CAPTCHA "verification" workflows with email routing misconfigurations to impersonate internal senders — a layered social engineering approach driving credential theft, session token compromise, and persistent access across Windows and macOS environments.