Agentic AI Threats & SOC Autonomy

Wed, Nov 4, 2026
10:30AM - 11:30AM EST
English
Dave Shackleford & Jane Goh
Technical Presentation

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Agentic AI is changing security operations faster than most SOC teams can adapt. Automation promised to lift the alert burden, but for many organizations it simply changed the shape of the workload, trading manual triage for new questions about how much autonomy to hand an AI agent in production.

On November 4, 2026 at 10:30 AM EST, SANS Instructor Dave Shackleford and Palo Alto Product Marketing Principal lead Jane Goh will share new survey data on how security teams are responding to this shift, from detecting agentic threats like prompt injection and non-human identity compromise to the barriers still stalling SOC autonomy.

The session will cover:

How practitioners are identifying and prioritizing agentic AI threats, including agentic swarms and shadow AI agents
What is slowing the move toward autonomous SOC operations
How teams weigh the tradeoffs of letting AI act independently in production, without a human in the loop
How organizations plan to reshape analyst roles as AI absorbs more of the daily workload

Meet Your Speakers

Dave Shackleford

Founder at Voodoo Security

Cybersecurity leader Dave Shackleford combines decades of enterprise defense, cloud security, and hands-on consulting experience to help students master real-world security operations and modern threat defense.

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Jane Goh

Product Marketing Principal Lead for Cortex XSOAR at Palo Alto Networks

A seasoned product marketer, Jane has been around cyber-security products for the past 20 years and has worked at cybersecurity companies ranging from 10 to 10,000 employees. She currently spends her time exploring the art of the possible in SecOps automation at Palo Alto Networks, as Product Marketing Principal Lead for Cortex XSOAR.