SuperSOC: Conversations with the People Shaping the Future of Security Operations
SuperSOC: Conversations with the People Shaping the Future of Security Operations
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SuperSOC is the monthly podcast where Qevlar AI's CEO Ahmed Achchak interviews top cybersecurity experts to explore the future of the SOC. From real-world AI applications to rethinking SecOps workflows, each episode delivers bold insights and practical strategies for modern security teams. Recent guests include Google’s Anton Chuvakin and cybersecurity automation expert Filip Stojkovski.Want to know more about Qevlar AI and how it can help you automate alert investigation? Head to www.qevlar.com
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The podcast focuses on topics such as artificial intelligence in security, automation in SOC workflows, and operational strategies for security teams. For example, episodes explore real-world AI applications and discuss challenges in L1/L2 workflows, providing concrete strategies for enhancing SOC efficiency through automation.
SuperSOC is the monthly podcast where Qevlar AI’s CEO Ahmed Achchak interviews top cybersecurity experts to explore the future of the SOC.
From real-world AI applications to rethinking SecOps workflows, each episode delivers bold insights and practical strategies for modern security teams.
Recent guests include Google’s Anton Chuvakin and cybersecurity automation expert Filip Stojkovski.
Want to know more about Qevlar AI and how it can help you automate alert investigation? Head to www.qevlar.com
Most SOCs today are still built around the same assumption: wait for an alert, investigate it, move to the next one.
But what happens when AI becomes capable of doing much more than alert triage?
In this episode, Ahmed Achchak (CEO & Co-founder of Qevlar AI) sits down with Rob van Os, Strategic SOC Advisor at SOC-CMM, to discuss what comes after the alert-centric SOC and why the future of security operations may be driven by continuous situational awareness rather than reactive investigations.
You'll discover:
→ The three stages of SOC evolution: human-led, AI-augmented, and AI-driven.
→ Why simply adding AI to existing workflows won't unlock its full potential.
→ How exposure management, telemetry, and threat intelligence can be combined to create true situational awareness.
→ Why the role of analysts will shift from investigation to governance and oversight.
→ The biggest obstacles preventing organizations from building AI-driven SOCs today.
→ Why trust, context, and human validation remain essential even as AI capabilities improve.
Agenda:
01:30 – The three stages of SOC evolution
04:10 – Why the alert queue is becoming the SOC's biggest bottleneck
05:15 – Moving from reactive investigations to continuous monitoring
07:35 – Situational awareness: combining threats, exposure, and telemetry
10:35 – Can AI help build self-healing security operations?
13:00 – What trust looks like in an AI-driven SOC
18:00 – The data and context problem
29:00 – Fire Round: AI, SOC maturity, and future attacker tactics
Follow Ahmed on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ahmed-achchak-872554109
Follow Rob van Os on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/socadvisor/
Read Rob’s article on AI-driven SOC: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/ai-driven-soc-revisited-moving-beyond-alert-centric-security-van-os-jyjqe/
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