In this episode, Tom Findling, CEO and co-founder at Conifers, explains how Conifers adds an operating layer between a security team's existing tools and its people. That layer connects threat intelligence, hunting, detection engineering, investigation, and response so the SOC can respond, adapt, and detect at machine speed, with the transparency and guardrails that let teams build trust over time. It does not replace the SIEM or any existing controls. Joining him are Jake Lorz, vp of information technology and CISO at Cintas, and Dennis Pickett, vp and CISO at RTI International.
Want to know:
- Are SOCs built for human speed really putting defenders at a disadvantage?
- Why would you choose Conifers over the AI features platforms are building into their own products?
- Where do customers draw the line on autonomy: investigation, containment, or remediation?
- How does the system fail safe when an AI hallucination happens?
- Does the platform rely only on alerts from your existing tools, or does it run its own analysis?
- Why do so many detections in large enterprises stop working when the underlying telemetry shifts?
- How do you keep AI-generated detections from burying the SOC in more alert noise?
- What does it take to give an AI agent a longer leash without losing trust in its decisions?
- How long does it take to see value in a large environment?
Check out the episode for the answers you need.
Huge thanks to our sponsor, Conifers
Conifers builds CognitiveSOC™, the agentic AI SOC platform that powers Resilient Cyber Defense. It investigates with your environment's context and shows the evidence behind every conclusion, connecting threat intelligence, threat hunting, detection engineering, investigation, and remediation as one adaptive system on top of the security tools you already own.
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