For teams that have outgrown their MDR, the answer isn’t a better MDR. It’s a different operating model.
MDR works. For a lot of teams, it’s the right solution at the right time. It brings experienced analysts, established processes, and investigation capacity that most organizations can’t build internally overnight.
But as environments grow and alert volumes climb, many teams start to feel the limits of the model itself. Investigation quality depends on analyst availability and shift coverage. Low and medium severity alerts get deprioritized because the queue demands it. And the security team watching from the other side can’t always tell whether the backlog is safe to ignore or hiding something real.
That’s not a failure of MDR. It’s a ceiling built into any operating model that scales investigation through human labor.
Today, we’re announcing expanded capabilities in the Intezer AI SOC platform, powered by ForensicAI™. Built for teams who’ve reached that ceiling and are ready for what comes next.
The risk in the backlog
Across enterprise SOC environments, roughly 60% of alerts go unreviewed. Not because teams aren’t working hard. Because there are only so many hours in a day, and the alert stream doesn’t stop.
“Many organizations handle millions of security events per year. There’s no possible way you can go through 100% of your alerts and resolve them completely, unless you rely on an AI platform.”
— Cecil Pineda, 4x CISO, Healthcare Industry
Our analysis of more than 25 million alerts found that nearly 1% of real threats originate from low-severity signals, alerts that most teams deprioritize or skip entirely. For a large enterprise, that’s an average of 54 true threat alerts per year. More than one per week. Hiding in the noise tier that nobody gets to.
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There’s also a second gap that rarely gets discussed. Because investigation and detection engineering are siloed within most MDRs, real investigation outcomes almost never feed back into SIEM and EDR rule tuning. Noisy detections stay noisy. Coverage gaps stay gaps. The system doesn’t learn from its own work.
What’s new in the Intezer AI SOC
The Intezer AI SOC platform was built on a simple premise. If you can’t investigate every alert, you can’t meaningfully reduce risk. Intezer AI SOC handles the investigative execution (triage, correlation, forensic-depth analysis) across 100% of alerts, regardless of severity. Humans supervise outcomes and engage at the decision point.
With this expansion, we’re adding three capabilities that close the remaining gaps between autonomous AI SOC operations and the full-service coverage teams expect.
AI-driven detection engineering
Investigation outcomes now feed directly into a closed-loop detection engineering process. SIEM and EDR rules are tuned or created, at the source, based on real verdict data, threat intelligence, and observed attacker behavior. Broken detections, noisy rules, and coverage gaps are identified and addressed continuously. This is the connection that siloed MDR roles have historically missed. Triage informs detection, better detection shortens the triage process, and the system gets smarter over time.
On-demand security experts
When the AI surfaces a high-confidence incident and you want a second set of eyes, or you’re mid-response and need expert judgment, Intezer’s security researchers and analysts are available directly through the platform. You can request expert analysis of artifacts, alerts, and logs, get guidance during an active incident, or validate suspicious activity the AI flagged. A dedicated expert is always on call for urgent requests, with Customer Success tracking every engagement through to resolution.
Continuous feedback and model tuning
Every time your team reviews a verdict, marks a false positive, or flags a result that doesn’t fit, that signal improves the system. Intezer’s experts review edge cases, adjust tuning rules, and add custom AI instructions calibrated to your environment and risk profile. Tuning also happens proactively through continuous platform monitoring and improvements, with no periodic review project required.
Learn more about Intezer’s QA process.
The shift
“Security operations have reached a structural limit. Human teams, whether internal or outsourced to MDR providers, cannot realistically investigate the volume of alerts enterprises now face. Our analysis of more than 25 million alerts makes the risk clear: Real threats are often buried in the low-severity signals that never get investigated. AI SOC changes the model by making full forensic investigation possible across every alert, continuously improving detection based on real outcomes, and allowing human experts to focus on the incidents that truly require judgment and response.”
— Itai Tevet, CEO and Co-Founder, Intezer
Together, these capabilities shift security teams away from manual alert processing and toward supervising outcomes. Organizations that have outgrown their MDR can now investigate 100% of alerts at forensic depth, trust the evidence behind every verdict, close the loop between investigation outcomes and detection quality, and bring in expert analysts when it matters most.
The result is stronger security outcomes, broader alert coverage, and the ability to operate at enterprise scale without the constraints of a human-scaled model.
AI executes. Humans supervise.
RSA Conference is where the security industry sets its direction. This year, AI in the SOC is the conversation happening on every floor of Moscone. But there’s a meaningful difference between AI that helps analysts work faster and AI that takes on the investigative function entirely.
This announcement draws that line with data. 25 million alerts analyzed, 60% going unreviewed in enterprise environments, real threats hiding in the low-severity tier at a rate of more than one per week. These aren’t hypotheticals. They’re findings from production environments at scale where Intezer is not simply delivering better analyst productivity, but rather measurable improvements in enterprise security.
For teams that have been thinking about what comes after MDR, this is the moment to see it working.
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