Revio’s John Baird on AI’s Role in Boosting Sovereign SOC Capabilities

“I’ve had people say to me that SOC analysts will disappear, that we won’t need them in the future – it will all be done by AI.”

This is Revio Cyber Security’s CEO, John Baird, who says that future may still be a long way off. For now, AI is helping analysts at the organisations Australian Security Operations Centre do their jobs more effectively.

ADAPT’s data shows that SOC teams are overwhelmed by alert volumes, with 69% reporting burnout due to false positives. But they report that AI is increasingly automating event correlation, anomaly detection and log analysis, reducing the “noise” analysts face and shifting them away from manual threat monitoring.

When AI handles baseline monitoring, SOC analysts are freed up to focus on more creative tasks such as threat hunting, adversarial simulations and proactive defence.

AI is playing a significant role in strengthening the capabilities of…