Is Huntress using AI to replace SOC analysts?

No. Athena exists to supercharge analysts, not replace them. It's explicitly not a way to reduce headcount or outsource human expertise.<a href="/generative-ai-guide/the-problem-isnt-ai-autonomy-its-autonomy-without-accountability"><u> We use AI to help analysts</u></a> move faster and handle more work at the same quality level as we scale — minutes matter, and AI helps us win those minutes.

AI is changing cybersecurity. Here's how Huntress uses it.

Artificial intelligence is changing cybersecurity on both sides. Explore how attackers are using AI and how Huntress puts it to work responsibly.

The adversary was among the first to embrace AI. Defenders can't be among the last.

Threat actors use AI to generate sharper phishing lures and automate attacks, stripping much of the manual work out of cybercrime. As AI puts capable attacks in less-capable hands, defenders have to move faster without giving up their own judgment.

At Huntress, we believe AI is a tool to augment human expertise, not replace it. Unlike fully autonomous SOCs, Huntress takes a different approach that combines human insight and judgment with machine speed. You're not buying an algorithm, you're getting an AI-enabled team of experts.

Inside our 24/7 SOC, a proprietary AI-powered investigation system assists with investigating, correlating, and summarizing, while our in-house analysts own the decisions that demand human expertise.

Meet Athena: Huntress’ AI-Powered SOC Analyst

Purpose-built to work alongside our human SOC experts, Athena helps:

ACCELERATE INVESTIGATIONS

by gathering context, connecting telemetry, and drafting incident reports before a human looks at the investigation.

SHARPEN THE SIGNAL

by grouping meaningful behavior across endpoints, identities, logs, and users into a single investigation.

SCALE RESPONSE

with automation on high-confidence investigations, so the SOC keeps up as the volume of AI-powered attacks grows.

KEEP PEOPLE IN CONTROL

with Huntress analysts owning outcomes and making the calls that take the most careful human judgment.

Athena delivers measurable results

With Athena, human analysts can spend less time assembling information and more time stopping complex and novel threats.

90%

Reduction in time required to generate incident reports.

61%

Reduction in human analyst time to investigate.

40+

Specialized AI agents working together within Athena to support investigations.

86%

Of ITDR investigations handled end-to-end by Athena.

AI INVESTIGATION SYSTEM

Signals from across your environment feed a single investigation. More than 40 specialized agents run the same playbooks and guardrails our analysts use, and our analysts own every call the system is not confident enough to make.

Real people are still behind you, at every hour

Cybercriminals are moving faster than ever, which means you need experts who know what real attacker behavior looks like and how to respond when a threat takes hold.

The Huntress Adversary Tactics team and our 24/7 Security Operations Center (SOC) use AI to handle the repetitive work, so they can focus on the threats that need human judgment. AI does the legwork, but our experts make the calls.

The result is a team that moves faster on real tradecraft and stops threats before they take over your day.

Get ready for anything attackers throw at you…

Learn how Huntress' Athena brings agentic AI to the SOC, investigating signals end-to-end while human analysts own the final call.

AI Signal Triage: How Huntress Cuts Noise Before It Hits the Analyst

Learn how Huntress' AI signal triage and AI-powered SOC triage cut noise before it reaches human analysts. And discover why that matters for response times.

What Our AI SOC Analyst Can Do (and What We Won’t Let It Do)

See agentic security operations governance in action: Huntress' AI SOC lets Athena investigate and act autonomously within guardrails our human analysts set.

See how the Huntress Agentic Platform protects you from AI-powered threats.

Our platform combines a suite of powerful managed detection and response tools for endpoints and Microsoft 365 identities, science-backed security awareness training, Managed SIEM, and the expertise of our 24/7 Security Operations Center (SOC).

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Frequently Asked Questions

Athena automatically sends an incident report when a high-confidence determination is reached across multiple independent investigation checks. Any investigation that falls below that threshold, or where signals are ambiguous, is routed to a human Huntress SOC analyst for review and finalization. Analysts can override any Athena determination.

No. Athena exists to supercharge analysts, not replace them. It's explicitly not a way to reduce headcount or outsource human expertise. We use AI to help analysts move faster and handle more work at the same quality level as we scale — minutes matter, and AI helps us win those minutes.

We're intentionally conservative and targeted in our AI usage, so we're not burning cycles on hype and passing the bill to customers. Customers pay for outcomes—Endpoint Resilience, Identity Resilience, Operational Readiness, Threat Visibility & Response, and Business Resilience—not for us to experiment recklessly with AI.