Presented on July 23, 2026 by Mike Pinch, Chief Technology Officer, and Joe Cicero, Chief Marketing Officer, Security Risk Advisors

Most “AI in the SOC” pitches are a chatbot bolted onto a dashboard. This 30-minute session is different. SRA CMO Joe Cicero sits down with CTO Mike Pinch to show how SRA builds and runs AI inside a client’s own security operations center (SOC) today. Not a product you buy, but a capability SRA builds inside your own Azure tenant, on your own data.

Mike walks through the engineering decisions that actually matter:

• Where to keep automation deterministic and where AI judgment earns its place
• Why workflows of specialized agents outperform a single do-everything agent
• Why the model you pick matters less than the orchestration around it

Then he makes it real with artifacts SRA built for live clients. A phishing investigation that enriches a case end to end for about $0.50 an incident. A six-level automation maturity model that shows how far to push. A daily SOC summary an agent produced on its own, with prioritized, MITRE ATT&CK-mapped next actions.

The throughline: build, don’t buy. Your analysts become the chief of staff of their own agents instead of spectators to a vendor’s black box.

If you own a SOC and want to see what modern AI operations look like inside your environment, this session is for you.