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Most “AI SOC” demos out there can look great. The polished dashboard, the confident verdict, the slide that says “autonomous.” A demo is built to show the platform at its best, on clean data, in a controlled environment, answering a question the vendor already knew was coming. The differences only show up after you’ve signed, when the platform meets your real stack, alert volume, and compliance requirements.

A year ago, a handful of vendors called themselves an “AI SOC.” Today, more than 100 do. The label now means whatever the person selling it needs it to mean, leaving security teams to buy very different products under the same two words. So let’s sort the market. Beneath the “agentic” branding, most AI SOC vendors fall into one of four categories, and none of them clears the bar. Each can look capable in a demo.

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AI SOC memory is the difference between an investigation that starts from your team’s history and one that starts from zero. In most security operations centers, there is none: context disappears the moment a case closes. When a new alert fires, the investigation effectively starts from zero.

See how Torq harnesses AI in your SOC to detect, prioritize, and respond to threats faster. Request a Demo The first half of 2026 is coming to a close. And unless you live under a rock, there is only one takeaway: The AI SOC revolution is here, and Torq is winning.

See how Torq harnesses AI in your SOC to detect, prioritize, and respond to threats faster. Request a Demo David Melamed is Head of Emerging Technologies at Torq. He joined through Torq’s acquisition of Jit, which he co-founded and led as CTO since 2020, building agentic security on a production Context Graph. A cloud security veteran with 20+ years of experience, David previously held senior technical roles at Cisco (via the CloudLock acquisition) and MyHeritage.

See how Torq harnesses AI in your SOC to detect, prioritize, and respond to threats faster. Request a Demo The AI SOC category just got its definitive race assessment, and Torq is at the front. In the May 2026 Gartner report AI Vendor Race: Torq Is the Company to Beat in AI SOC Agents for Threat Investigation (Document ID: G00855833), Gartner names Torq the Company to Beat.

Security automation used to mean building a playbook. Someone on the team mapped out a workflow, connected a few tools, and watched it run on the alert types it was designed for. That worked for a while, in a different environment than the one security teams operate in today.

See how Torq harnesses AI in your SOC to detect, prioritize, and respond to threats faster. Request a Demo John White is the Field CISO for EMEA at Torq. A respected security executive with more than 20 years of leadership experience, John previously served as CISO at Virgin Atlantic, where he led a multi-year transformation deploying the Torq AI SOC Platform to modernize cyber operations.

See how Torq harnesses AI in your SOC to detect, prioritize, and respond to threats faster. Request a Demo Noam Cohen is a serial entrepreneur building seriously cool data and AI companies since 2018. Noam’s insights are informed by a unique combination of data, product, and AI expertise — with a background that includes winning the Israel Defense Prize for his work in leveraging data to predict terror attacks.