Agentic Defense FAQ

Agentic Defense is an approach to security operations where autonomous AI continuously understands the environment, reasons over risk, configures proactive measures, and coordinates defensive action across the tools and data already in place—including SIEM, EDR, cloud, network, email—through a single natural-language interface. It gives defenders more speed and scale, and the ability to operate effectively without being an expert in every tool or discipline. This isn't a faster SOC or another tool. Agentic Defense transforms the underlying architecture of how your organization protects itself: how data is normalized, how fast threats are detected, how teams operate, and how defense scales without scaling headcount.

Traditional SOC automation follows fixed playbooks and automates individual tasks or workflows. Agentic Defense applies agentic AI across every part of security operations, organizing multiple AI agents into a cohesive defense layer that manages the full threat lifecycle across your entire technology stack. Traditional SOC automation is task execution. Agentic Defense is coordinated, enterprise-scale defense.

The AI Model Broker is an agentic harness natively built into GreyMatter that controls AI cost at the infrastructure layer. Every time a task executes, GreyMatter automatically selects the best available model for that specific job based on cost, speed, and accuracy. Continuous automated A/B testing with an LLM-as-judge routes the same request through multiple models simultaneously and feeds results back into future model selection—enabling automatic failover if a model degrades and auto-adopting new models as they become available. For customers, this means better outcomes and continuous improvement as AI models evolve, without re-procurement, operational disruption, or unexpected cost increases.

Any defender can operate GreyMatter in plain language without requiring expertise in every tool they own. There is no query syntax, no vendor-specific languages, and no tool-by-tool workflows. Defenders only need to understand cyber knowledge and intent to know what they want to do—then they can ask GreyMatter to do it.