AI is no longer just assisting security teams. It is starting to investigate, triage, and respond at machine speed.

Tom Findling is CEO and co-founder of Conifers, a company building AI SOCs that take ownership of security investigations in real time without waiting for human analysts. Tom explains what he calls the agentic blue team, a future where AI handles threat intelligence, investigation, and response at machine speed.

He breaks down why agents already make fewer mistakes than humans on certain tasks, why there's a double standard when AI gets something wrong, and what the future actually looks like for human defenders when machines are doing the front-line work. If you're in security or trying to understand where defense is headed, this matters.