Agentic AI in Cybersecurity

Your Security Operations Center (SOC) is overwhelmed and security professionals can’t cope with the myriad of inputs and signals they are faced with. A heavily studied concept is cybersecurity fatigue (or cyber fatigue), which is the emotional and cognitive strain caused by prolonged exposure to cybersecurity demands. Cybersecurity professionals operate in a state of continuous vigilance, dealing with high volumes of false positive alerts, malware warnings, and compliance demands. A 2025 study by Mizrak et al. found that this constant activation of the brain’s threat response exhausts cognitive resources. This fatigue directly reduces a professional’s ability to focus, slows their response times, and increases their error rate when assessing genuine threats. Organisations try to solve for this by deploying cybersecurity automation, where Agentic AI has become the go-to toolset of choice. In fact, a recent paper by Guy Waizel shows that heavily regulated sectors like healthcare remain hesitant, but Security Operations Centers (SOCs) and software engineering are experiencing some of the most rapid uptake. However, simply dropping an AI agent into a SOC is not a silver…