In the high-stakes world of cybersecurity, SOC teams have embraced AI, hoping it will tell them how to do their jobs better while remaining hopelessly dependent on prompt engineering to communicate with machines. Like an intern who’s already on their third cup of coffee, AI promises to investigate cloud breaches faster—because who has the time to wait for a breach when you can have it now?

Forget the days when incident response teams would leisurely examine logs over tea and coffee! In today’s cloud landscape, where instances have the lifespan of a goldfish’s memory, SOC teams must act with the urgency of a cat who just heard the can opener. AI provides ‘context,’ which is a fancy way of saying it makes educated guesses while SOC teams cross their fingers and whistle nonchalantly.

Cloud forensics has fundamentally changed. Compromised instances vanish faster than dessert at a family gathering, identities switch more frequently than a chameleon at a disco, and evidence evaporates before the ink of the breach notification is dry. But don’t worry, with AI and just the right amount of guesswork, your SOC team will kind-of, sort-of get there, eventually!