THE Hacker News discusses how AI is reshaping security operations, focusing on Prophet Security’s Agentic AI as a practical advancement rather than a sci‑fi dream. It notes that the AI SOC agent adds a machine layer that investigates every alert with human‑level accuracy before it reaches a human analyst, effectively enabling 100% investigation and reducing dwell time.
The article explains how this shifts analyst workflows, unifying telemetry from EDR, identity, email, cloud, SaaS and network tools to provide contextualised verdicts and free analysts to focus on detecting hidden malicious actors. It also highlights improvements in detection engineering, with AI identifying which detection rules cause false positives and providing empirical data to prune noise.
Threat hunting is made more accessible through natural language interaction, removing the need to master complex query languages. Prophet Security’s pillars—Depth, Accuracy, Transparency, Adaptability and Workflow Integration—are emphasised, with the company claiming an accuracy level above 98% in true and false positive identification. January 2026.