The Air-Gapped Chronicles: The SOC Blindspot — When Your Own AI Becomes the New Insider Threat

The Air-Gapped Chronicles: The SOC Blindspot - When Your Own AI Becomes the New Insider Threat Benchmarks passed. Production looked clean. Then the AI started explaining away real intrusions. The alerts it suppressed? Those were the breach. The scenario below is fictional, but built from real SOC AI failure patterns documented by Sygnia, OWASP, and academic research on LLM-powered security operations. The graveyard shift SOC analyst pulled up ticket at AM. Alert: Suspicious PowerShell execution, svchost.exe spawned child process AI Summary: “Routine Windows Update process.