The Economist reviewed research on the impact of AI on productivity and found that AI strengthened work outputs among experts but not poorly-skilled users.
SentinelOne's Mortal v. Machine competition demonstrated that non-experts using finely-tuned AI models, like Purple AI, can outperform experts in discrete tasks in the context of SOC operations.
Managers and CISOs should up-skill SOC analysts for threat hunting, detection engineering, and intelligence production to leverage the expertise of experts using specialized AI systems, while also empowering team members to take on new responsibilities and improve overall security.
Improvements in team capabilities, through education and empowering members, will contribute to improved security and productivity statistics, unlike the limited impact seen with the onset of computers in the 1980s.