Zscaler launches Agentic SOC to counter AI-driven attacks at machine speed

Zscaler has launched Zscaler Agentic SOC, a security operations platform built to detect, investigate and contain AI-driven threats at machine speed, drawing on partnerships with frontier AI labs Anthropic and OpenAI.

It combines Zscaler's zero trust telemetry, what the vendor describes as the world's largest decoy mesh network, expert-validated AI agents, and integrations with customers' third-party security tooling.

Key capabilities include a data-rich context graph that correlates zero trust telemetry with third-party data, specialised autonomous agents performing dedicated triage and investigation roles, advanced detections informed by frontline threat intelligence, and continuous threat hunting supported by human analysts from Zscaler and security firm Red Canary.

The platform processes telemetry across 750 billion daily zero trust transactions, according to the company, and uses that data to correlate real-time signals with third-party sources, map incident chains, and trigger automated containment responses including isolating compromised users, blocking command-and-control communications and cutting off lateral movement.

Zscaler said its AI agents have been trained on more than ten years of frontline SOC, managed detection and response, and threat-hunting experience drawn from thousands of customer environments globally.

The integration of Anthropic and OpenAI frontier models alongside Zscaler's proprietary threat intelligence is intended to deliver agents that, the company said, reason with greater depth, accuracy and explainability than a single model approach.

"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," said Deepen Desai, executive vice president of cybersecurity at Zscaler.

"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."