
Beyond the Prompt: Engineering Trustworthy AI SOC Analysts
Security leaders are increasingly asked whether LLMs can be trusted inside the SOC. The real challenge isn’t speed or cost, it’s variability. Same alert. Same inputs. Yet the investigation path changes, steps are skipped, and conclusions don’t always align. Our research breaks down the results of a large-scale experiment (18,000 investigations) that reveals the limits of stochastic intelligence in security operations, and why trust in AI for the SOC must start with reproducibility, not probability.