Soap Box: Detection and response in the AI age

About this episode

Patrick Gray interviews Edward Wu about the impact of AI on detection and response in security operations centers.

In this sponsored Soap Box edition of the Risky Business podcast Patrick Gray chats with Edward Wu, founder of Dropzone, about what AI is doing to detection, response and the SOC more generally. Dropzone makes AI agents that conduct alert investigations in your SOC, but will the SOC as we know it even exist in the future? Ed has a deep expertise in SOC tech, having previously led AI/ML detection engineering at Extrahop. This interview is a fantastic look at what the future may bring for detection and response professionals. This episode is also available on YouTube

People in this episode

Host: Patrick Gray

Guest: Edward Wu

Topics covered

• AI
• detection
• response
• SOC
• technology
• future of work

Keywords

• AI
• detection
• response
• SOC
• alert investigations
• technology

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Dropzone, Extrahop

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