ReliaQuest announced the launch of the first autonomous AI agent for security operations, aimed at significantly increasing the efficiency of threat detection, containment, investigation, and response.
The company says this advancement will automate 98% of security alerts and reduce the average time to contain a customer threat to less than five minutes.
AI agents, or agent AI, are technologies that can understand and solve problems without human intervention. You can continuously learn and improve yourself. Unlike generative AI, which typically summarizes events and alerts, AI agents are designed to think, act, and learn to make decisions to respond to security incidents in real time.
ReliaQuest’s GreyMatter platform has long incorporated AI to automate security operations and minimize mean time to contain threats. The new AI agent is an extension of these efforts, allowing organizations to respond faster to security incidents without compromising visibility. Customers also have the ability to train their own self-learning AI agents within their environment.
Our AI agents are trained from start to finish based on over 10 years of incident response data and experience. Continuously update your knowledge with real-time information about the threat landscape and customer environment to handle repetitive Tier 1 and Tier 2 activities especially effectively. It autonomously learns how to act on alerts, analyze and perform required tasks using customer-specific data in a secure and private context, eliminating the risk of AI illusions.
“Enterprise security teams are too talented to be overwhelmed by tickets,” said Brian Murphy, founder and CEO of ReliaQuest. “By leveraging 10 years of expertise and data, integrating our AI agents into the GreyMatter platform frees security teams from tedious alerts that take too much time and add little value to security operations. Get the right results for your business in minutes, not hours or days.”
Dannie Combs, Senior Vice President and Chief Information Security Officer at Donnelley Financial Solutions, commented on the practical application of new AI agents in the security industry. “There has been a lot of hype about AI in the security industry, but so far ReliaQuest’s new AI agent works across our diverse technology stack, so we don’t have to sacrifice visibility or control. It helps you explore activities that interest you.
Trust in AI systems is often cited as a major barrier to adoption. To address this issue, ReliaQuest designed an AI agent that provides full transparency and explainability, allowing users to inspect the AI’s decision-making process. Additionally, our world-class security team reviews and provides feedback at each stage of the investigation, so the AI agent is expected to become more accurate and consistent over time.
ReliaQuest aims to revolutionize the field of cybersecurity by enabling new AI agents to automate routine tasks and free security teams to focus on more important activities. This development aims to enhance both the speed and effectiveness of responding to security incidents and provide organizations with a higher level of protection.
