ON 24 March 2026, Paul Ewing examines how Detection Engineers are navigating the AI-enhanced SOC landscape in the Elastic Security Labs piece “Supercharge Your SOC.” The article argues that generative AI and advanced coding agents are transforming how security teams translate high-level requirements into validated detection logic, with Elastic emphasising native AI capabilities and open-sourced agent skills for third‑party IDEs.
A Notepad++‑themed supply chain attack is used as a walkthrough example, showing how an agent can rapidly generate and test conditional rules, extract IOCs, and map MITRE ATT&CK techniques to create and tune detections. It also describes advanced capabilities such as ES|QL aggregation, Event Query Language for sequential detections, and suppression to reduce alert noise, illustrating a shift from simple lookups to complex entity analytics.
The piece highlights the concept of an Agentic SOC, where dialogue with an AI assistant facilitates rapid rule generation, testing, and deployment, while cautions about the real credentials and permissions involved in AI-driven security workflows.