Question 1

What Is a Human-AI SOC?

Accepted Answer

Rather than replacing human talent and intelligence, the Human-AI SOC works alongside your team by automating mundane tasks while keeping people in charge of decision-making. The AI identifies correlations across data sources and provides actionable insights that cybersecurity teams can use to make critical decisions based on experience, intuition, and deep reasoning. At every point, humans provide input and review what the AI is doing. The AI delivers efficient context gathering, but the uniquely human ability to draw on things like organizational and emotional context, past experiences, and lateral thinking elevates the qualitative judgment and facilitates more proactive protection.

Question 2

Why Does an AI SOC Need Humans at the Helm?

Accepted Answer

AI-enabled SOC solutions are designed to support and alleviate analyst burnout by accelerating alert management, investigation, and enrichment. The goal is to allow AI to take care of the menial, time-consuming tasks, like managing alerts and generating report summaries. In some solutions, AI handles actions from start to finish. However, when AI faces situations outside of what it has been trained on, it falters. This is why some AI SOCs keep humans in the loop. In this more collaborative approach, humans oversee AI-driven workflows, configure agents, and control investigations, response, and evidence validation. For highly complex situations where autonomous AI can be risky, human decision-making is essential.

Question 3

Can Andesite Help my SOC Eliminate Blind Spots?

Accepted Answer

The 451 Research Voice of the Enterprise: Information Security Survey found that SOC teams are unable to investigate 45% of the security analytics alerts they receive each day. Andesite enables analysts to cover 100% of the alerts, minimizing the risks to your data and organization.

Question 4

How Can I Estimate My ROI with Andesite?

Accepted Answer

Andesite offers an ROI calculator that you can adjust to match your SecOps environment and learn how Andesite would optimize and accelerate your SOC while delivering measurable savings and returns.

Question 5

Do I Need to Migrate or Duplicate Data to Work with Andesite?

Accepted Answer

No data extraction, transformation, or loading (ETL) are required with Andesite. No expensive data migration or extraction needed means no delays, reduced complexity, minimized exposure, and enhanced security.

Question 6

Can I Configure My Playbooks with Andesite?

Accepted Answer

Yes, Andesite enables customers to configure their detection, enrichment, triage, and remediation playbooks. Playbooks can invoke Configurable Agents and be initiated by analysts or triggered in response to an event.

Question 7

Will Andesite Work with My AI Model?

Accepted Answer

Andesite is model-agnostic and can work with your enterprise LLM.

Question 8

Is Andesite Audit-Ready?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Andesite’s Evidentiary AI™ ensures all of your investigations are reliable and audit-ready. Every AI-driven investigation can be traced back to verified sources and insights that can be reviewed to increase confidence and reduce risk.

Question 9

Does Andesite Adapt to my Organization’s Context and Risk Profile?

Accepted Answer

Every organization’s risk profile is unique. And different threats present different levels of risk for companies based on their industry, regulatory requirements and audiences served. Andesite&#8217;s Human-AI SOC uses contextual awareness that helps you understand exactly where within your organization remediation is needed. Andesite proactively combines organizational data sources to unlock insights relevant to each customer&#8217;s specific risk profile and provides contextual relevance and information to the SOC team assessing threats. This allows you to prioritize and deliver timely investigations and early detection for the threats that are most pressing for your business.

Question 10

Does Andesite Provide Actionable Insights?

Accepted Answer

Any AI SOC should offer alert triage, investigation, and enrichment. In addition to these capabilities, it is important to consider the quality, reliability, and effectiveness of the solution you choose. An AI SOC is only effective if it can deliver timely information and insights that your team can use to prevent attacks and minimize damage. You want a solution that enables you to quickly assess risk exposure and adjudicate threat level to accelerate time to detect, investigate, and respond. The AI should enable a decision layer that operates above, beyond, across, around, and with existing data sources, tools, and platforms. It should survey the incessant wave of alerts, analyze structured and unstructured data, automate investigations, and provide enrichment to quickly deliver relevant, contextualized, and actionable insights. When threat hunting, the AI SOC tool should identify the blast radius with contextual awareness. An effective solution will prioritize alerts based on imminence, threat scope, and potential impact and then provide a space where analysts can seamlessly investigate and collaborate across all of your security platforms.

Question 11

What Makes the AI Behind the Andesite Human-AI SOC Safe and Secure?

Accepted Answer

The Andesite Human-AI SOC has security, compliance, and AI safety at its core. Andesite never uses customer data to train its AI. Contextual organizational awareness is only available within your system. It also includes end-to-end encryption at-rest, in-transit, and in-storage, and none of your data will cross paths with other customers’. In on-prem scenarios, deployments are air-gapped and self-managed. Andesite has robust monitoring controls in place and we regularly conduct red teaming testing. Access is controlled by single sign-on, multi-factor authentication, as well as integration with an identity provider (IDP), a common access card (CAC), or personal identity verification (PIV). And only data needed for immediate tasks is temporarily stored in the deployment environment.

Question 12

What Is the Optimal AI SOC Architecture?

Accepted Answer

To ensure you have the flexibility you need, an effective AI SOC solution must include built-to-fit integrations, bespoke connectors, and an architecture that adapts to your workflows with the ability to scale and change as your needs evolve. Your solution should integrate with the platforms and tools your team relies on, like SIEM, SOAR, email and identity security solutions, and more. For maximum sustainability, it must serve your ecosystem as it is, while also offering the ability to expand with your needs. It’s important to remember that turnkey solutions are fixed and rigid, which can be problematic for complex ecosystems. You don’t just want to add another tool or insert additional steps into your SOC processes. An AI SOC should be flexible, adaptable, and able to connect all of your data sources seamlessly in a way that empowers your team to access their security tools and insights in the same space.

Question 13

What Are the Benefits of Putting Humans at the Helm in Security Operations?

Accepted Answer

Putting humans at the helm enables a more collaborative and organizationally-aware approach to security operations. This is key in highly complex situations where autonomous AI can be risky. Humans provide input into the investigation process and can review what the AI is doing with a broader contextual lens. By drawing on organizational and emotional context, past experiences, and lateral thinking, humans offer vital qualitative judgment and accountability that AI cannot provide. This collaborative approach gives junior analysts access to organizational and tribal knowledge that elevates their capabilities, while senior analysts have time to focus on prevention and threat hunting to reduce the organizational risk surface.

Question 14

What AI SOC Features Are Important for Financial Services?

Accepted Answer

For financial services companies, an AI SOC must meet strict regulatory requirements and ensure complete auditability. Andesite, which in March 2026 became the first AI SOC startup to achieve FedRAMP High Authorized status, is Compliance High. It has built-in security that meets the highest requirements for financial institutions, including SOC 2 Type II, NIST 800-53 (High), NIST CSF, ISO 27001, ISO 27701, ISO 42001, PCI DSS, AI RMF, CSA STAR and AI-STAR Level 2. Our product has been proven at enterprise-scale through implementations at a number of financial services companies across a variety of use cases, including endpoint, network, and cloud activity, phishing, identity and access, and more. The Andesite Human-AI SOC includes Evidentiary AI, which ensures audit readiness by providing an evidence trail of AI-driven investigations that can be traced back to verified sources and insights to document, review, and audit the process.

Question 15

How Does Andesite Ensure Accuracy and Avoid AI Hallucinations?

Accepted Answer

In AI-enabled SecOps products, accuracy is essential. We use robust evaluation frameworks to continuously assess our AI accuracy and track quality over time. These structured test protocols look at correctness, relevancy, and faithfulness to evaluate accuracy, ensure trust, and detect risk of hallucination. We regularly run attacks based on the latest threats in our simlab to evaluate our performance in real-world scenarios that emulate the chaos and messiness our customers face. Since Andesite is model agnostic, we make sure every assessment performs reliably and accurately across a variety of models, SecOps, and cybersecurity knowledge bases.

Question 16

Does Andesite Allow My Team to Know in Real Time what Assumptions the AI Is Making?

Accepted Answer

Yes, Andesite delivers a no-black-boxes experience. SOC team members can know in real time what assumptions the AI is making and guide the agents throughout the process.

Question 17

What Does Andesite FedRAMP High Authorized Status Mean to my Organization?

Accepted Answer

In March 2026, Andesite&#8217;s Human AI SOC achieved FedRAMP High Authorized status. Achieving FedRAMP High Authorized requires a comprehensive assessment by an accredited third-party organization and formal authorization from a sponsoring federal agency. The designation signals that Andesite’s product, processes, and Safe AI Architecture™ meet the stringent security and risk management requirements demanded by the most sensitive government environments. This is key for federal agencies handling confidential and sensitive information. For enterprises in highly-regulated industries, it’s a clear indication that Andesite offers built-in security and compliance for the highest standards and requirements of the public and private sectors.

Question 18

How Does Andesite Handle Unstructured Data?

Accepted Answer

Andesite&#8217;s Human-AI SOC uses contextual awareness to connect the dots across multiple alert and threat intelligence sources, grouping them into a consolidated view. You can initiate an investigation by uploading a PDF document or inputting a URL to prompt the AI to evaluate the risk relative to your organization. And analysts can access, visualize, and work with all the elements and data feeds in their existing security ecosystem with confidence that the information they are working with is complete, relevant, contextualized, and actionable.

Question 19

What Is the Human-AI Collaboration Layer and Why Do I Need It?

Accepted Answer

The human-AI collaboration layer operates above, beyond, across, and with your existing data sources, tools and platforms. This is a decision layer where analysts can access, visualize and work with all the elements and data feeds in their security ecosystem. This is where the AI connects the ecosystem, analyzes structured and unstructured data without ETL and automates investigations and enrichment to deliver actionable insights to your analysts. It’s an efficient and proactive way to reduce attack surfaces, eliminate blind spots and accelerate investigation, context gathering and threat response.

Question 20

What Is Evidentiary AI™?

Accepted Answer

Evidentiary AI™ ensures all of your investigations are reliable and audit-ready. Every AI-driven investigation can be traced back to verified sources and insights that can be reviewed to increase confidence and reduce risk.

Question 21

Can I Use Natural Language Queries to Initiate Investigations with Andesite?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Analysts can launch and conduct investigations in plain English using Andesite. While other tools require senior-level syntax and tool-specific expertise, Andesite uses natural language queries to streamline the process and empower T1/junior analysts to initiate and conduct full investigation cycles.

Question 22

What Is a Safe AI Architecture™?

Accepted Answer

Andesite&#8217;s product architecture is designed to protect customer applications and data. It is flexible and adapts to customer use cases, tools and processes. We have also built in essential security features that strengthen our approach to safety, including: Single-tenancy SaaS and air-gapped self-managed deployment options Access + identity security via IDP + CAC / PIV. No ETL, only the minimal data needed for the task at hand is temporarily stored in the deployment environment. AI is never trained with customer data End-to-end encryption at-rest, in-transit, and in-storage Our security, trust and safety program permeates all Andesite practices.

Question 23

What Use Cases Are Available with the Human-AI SOC?

Accepted Answer

There are a variety of use cases where the Human-AI SOC can make a difference in your enterprise: Alert investigation – Investigate and prioritize alerts from multiple sources in a unified view, using AI-assisted context and enrichment to rapidly assess risk and drive confident decisions. Cloud – Correlate and enrich cloud activity across logs and signals to quickly identify suspicious behavior and understand its context and impact. Endpoint – Analyze and correlate endpoint activity to reconstruct timelines, assess scope and blast radius, and determine appropriate response actions. Identity and Access – Detect and investigate identity-based threats such as credential misuse, anomalous access, and privilege abuse to quickly confirm risk and contain impact. Network – Identify and investigate unusual network traffic patterns, including lateral movement and cross-signal activity, to uncover hidden or emerging threats. Ransomware – Identify ransomware indicators early, assess potential impact, and support rapid containment to reduce operational and organizational risk. Threat hunting – Initiate investigations from analyst-driven entry points—including queries, documents, URLs, or alert groups—to proactively uncover threats and determine scope. Threat intelligence – Turn threat intelligence into action by launching investigations directly from intel sources (including PDFs and URLs), enriching findings, and determining threat relevance and impact in minutes.

Question 24

Adversarial AI Is Increasing the Speed and Scale of Attacks. Will I Need to Hire More People to Protect my Organization against AI Threats?

Accepted Answer

Andesite scales your SOC&#8217;s capacity without scaling your headcount. Your team can build agents and playbooks to automate triage, investigation, and response — enabling analysts to work smarter and focus on the critical decisions only humans should make.

Question 25

Is Andesite Pricing Based on Tokens or on Outcomes?

Accepted Answer

Andesite pricing is based on outcomes, not on AI usage. Your cost reflects the value you get from the product — not the number of tokens consumed.

Question 26

Can I Build My Own Agents with Andesite?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Andesite lets you configure your own agents to focus on specific use cases, like phishing or alert triage, or to support determined workflows or assignments, like looking for anomalies in the network. Working under human oversight, the agents adapt to your ecosystem, enabling your SOC team to focus on the critical decisions, work smart and build a sustainable advantage.

Question 27

How Does the Human-AI SOC Accelerate Threat Intelligence Investigations?

Accepted Answer

Andesite’s automated intelligence investigations allow analysts to reduce the time they spend processing threat intelligence reports from hours to minutes, and correlates them with alerts and signals across multiple sources. This enables analysts to swiftly deliver risk assessment, prioritization and recommendations.

Question 28

Does Andesite Offer Single-tenant Deployment, or Is Customer Data Shared in a Multi-tenant Environment?

Accepted Answer

Andesite offers single-tenancy for cloud deployments. Your data never co-mingles with that of other customers.

Question 29

What Connectors Are Available with Andesite?

Accepted Answer

We have integrations with Tenable, Microsoft, Splunk, CrowdStrike, Domain Tools, Snowflake, Google Security, Tines, Atlassian, Cloudflare, Okta, ServiceNow, Redsense, Google Cloud, Archer, Databricks, Palo Alto Networks Cortex XIAM, Sublime Security, and many others. Check all available connectors here.

Question 30

What Does It Mean that Andesite is Compliance High?

Accepted Answer

Andesite is CISA Secure by Design, FedRAMP High Authorized since March 2026, SOC 2 Type II, and aligned with NIST 800-53 (High), NIST CSF, ISO 27001, ISO 27701, ISO 42001, PCI DSS, HIPAA and AI RMF frameworks. Andesite is ideal for enterprise-scale organizations in financial services, healthcare, technology, critical infrastructure, and the public sector. A clean evidence trail is available for any AI-driven investigation for audit purposes, so you can review the entire process and trace it back to verified sources and insights for full accountability.

Question 31

What Makes Andesite Uniquely Capable of Creating the Human-AI SOC?

Accepted Answer

We are a diverse team of cyber and security experts, technologists, and experienced product builders. We have honed our experience in some of the largest national security, tech, cybersecurity, and data organizations on the planet. Our leaders spent decades defending our nation against sophisticated adversaries and we have designed our products to support those who protect others. Our bionic SOC solution connects data silos, tools and platforms across the security ecosystem, delivers contextual information and offers verifiable evidence for cybersecurity investigation and collaboration.

Question 32

Why Is the Human-AI SOC Important Right Now?

Accepted Answer

AI has enabled adversaries to increase the scale and speed of cyber threats and attacks. These attacks will increase. Combatting this demands reliable, secure and safe AI solutions to reduce your risk surface and take a more proactive security posture. As the adversarial landscape evolves, you need an AI solution that can help you adapt at scale while ensuring human oversight. That’s the Human-AI SOC.

Question 33

Can I Get Proof of Value before I Commit to Purchasing Andesite?

Accepted Answer

Yes, Andesite offers a 30-day Proof of Value program customized to your ecosystem and use cases.

The Human-AI SOC

The Workspace for SOC Teams

Configurable
Agents

No ETL Required

Contextual
Awareness

Compliance High

Safe AI Architecture™

Multiple Deployment Options

Evidentiary AI™

Use Cases

Alert Investigation

Cloud

Endpoint

Identity and Access

Network

Phishing

Ransomware

Threat Hunting

Threat Intelligence

Frequently Asked Questions

Can Andesite Help my SOC Eliminate Blind Spots?

Do I Need to Migrate or Duplicate Data to Work with Andesite?

Can I Configure My Playbooks with Andesite?

Will Andesite Work with My AI Model?

How Does Andesite Ensure Accuracy and Avoid AI Hallucinations?

Does Andesite Allow My Team to Know in Real Time what Assumptions the AI Is Making?

How Does Andesite Handle Unstructured Data?

What Is Evidentiary AI™?

Can I Use Natural Language Queries to Initiate Investigations with Andesite?

What Is a Safe AI Architecture™?

Is Andesite Pricing Based on Tokens or on Outcomes?

Can I Build My Own Agents with Andesite?

How Does the Human-AI SOC Accelerate Threat Intelligence Investigations?

Does Andesite Offer Single-tenant Deployment, or Is Customer Data Shared in a Multi-tenant Environment?

What Connectors Are Available with Andesite?

Our Partners

Learn More

The Human-AI SOC

The Workspace for SOC Teams

Configurable Agents

No ETL Required

Contextual Awareness

Compliance High

Safe AI Architecture™

Multiple Deployment Options

Evidentiary AI™

Use Cases

Alert Investigation

Cloud

Endpoint

Identity and Access

Network

Phishing

Ransomware

Threat Hunting

Threat Intelligence

Frequently Asked Questions

Can Andesite Help my SOC Eliminate Blind Spots?

Do I Need to Migrate or Duplicate Data to Work with Andesite?

Can I Configure My Playbooks with Andesite?

Will Andesite Work with My AI Model?

How Does Andesite Ensure Accuracy and Avoid AI Hallucinations?

Does Andesite Allow My Team to Know in Real Time what Assumptions the AI Is Making?

How Does Andesite Handle Unstructured Data?

What Is Evidentiary AI™?

Can I Use Natural Language Queries to Initiate Investigations with Andesite?

What Is a Safe AI Architecture™?

Is Andesite Pricing Based on Tokens or on Outcomes?

Can I Build My Own Agents with Andesite?

How Does the Human-AI SOC Accelerate Threat Intelligence Investigations?

Does Andesite Offer Single-tenant Deployment, or Is Customer Data Shared in a Multi-tenant Environment?

What Connectors Are Available with Andesite?

Our Partners

Learn More

Configurable
Agents

Contextual
Awareness