Today’ s threat landscape is defined by speed and stealth as AI-driven attacks move faster than SOC teams can manually correlate, analyse and remediate. Threatlabz, Zscaler’ s global research team, is also seeing a rise in evasive tactics, including the use of trusted sites to host attacks, abuse of legitimate remote management tools and browser-based attacks. Zscaler Agentic SOC is built to meet that challenge by combining unique Zscaler telemetry, the world’ s largest decoy mesh network, expert-validated agents, integrated Zscaler Zero Trust controls and customers’ third-party controls to detect threats earlier and automate containment at machine speed. To power Agentic SOC, Zscaler has partnered with leading frontier AI labs, including Anthropic and OpenAI. By integrating their frontier models alongside Zscaler’ s proprietary threat intelligence and zero trust telemetry, Zscaler is able to deliver AI agents that reason with greater depth, accuracy and explainability than any single model or approach could achieve alone. This extends beyond threat detection, with Zscaler’ s open platform approach enabling direct integration with frontier models, allowing security teams to ingest vulnerability findings and operationalise them within their SOC workflows. This collaboration reflects Zscaler’ s commitment to building on the best available AI that includes speed, reliability and transparency that security operations demand.

“ AI-driven attacks are moving faster than traditional SOC models were ever designed to handle,” said Deepen Desai, Executive Vice President of Cybersecurity at Zscaler.“ Agentic SOC is a fundamental rethinking of security operations, built with agentic capabilities at its core to reduce exposures proactively, extend human expertise with AI agents and contain threats at machine speed. With unmatched inline telemetry, specialised AI agents and closed-loop remediation, Zscaler is giving security teams the visibility and control they need to outpace modern attackers.”

“ The past year has made one thing clear: AI attacks are fundamentally changing the threat landscape, operating at a speed, scale and level of adaptability that looks very different from traditional human-led activity,” said Allie Mellen, Principal Analyst and Author of Code War: How Nations Hack, Spy, and Shape the Digital Battlefield.“ To defend effectively, organisations must double down on the fundamentals – Zero Trust principles, preventing data exfiltration, limiting access and making AI attacks as expensive as possible.” x

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