SuperSOC: Conversations with the People Shaping the Future of Security Operations

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Qevlar AI

6 episodes

2 weeks ago

How do you guarantee the same investigative depth and accuracy when you’re running security operations for thousands of customers and processing billions of alerts per day? In this episode, Beatrice Francon, Director of MDR Services at Atos, joins Ahmed Achchak (CEO and co-founder of Qevlar AI) to unpack how Atos scales investigative quality across diverse client environments — from critical infrastructure to finance and healthcare — without losing the human context that defines great securit...

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Episodes (6/6)

SuperSOC: Conversations with the People Shaping the Future of Security Operations

The Multi-Tenant Challenge: How MDR Providers Maintain Detection Quality Across Hundreds of Different Environments ft. Beatrice Francon @Atos

2 weeks ago

21 minutes

SuperSOC: Conversations with the People Shaping the Future of Security Operations

Should SOCs Drop Tiered Models Altogether? ft. Rob van Os @SOC-CMM

Tier 1, Tier 2, Tier 3 — the hierarchy every SOC grew up with. But as AI takes over triage and investigation, does that model still make sense? In this episode, Ahmed Achchak (CEO and co-founder of Qevlar AI) talks with Rob van Os, Strategic SOC Advisor and creator of the SOC-CMM framework — one of the most widely adopted models for assessing and improving SOC maturity worldwide. Together, they unpack whether modern AI-driven operations make the tiered model obsolete, how skills-based SOCs ar...

1 month ago

22 minutes

SuperSOC: Conversations with the People Shaping the Future of Security Operations

Shifting Detection Left In the Kill Chain. How AI Can Reduce False Negatives ft. Shane Shook @Forgepoint Capital

In this episode, Ahmed Achchak (CEO & co-founder of Qevlar AI) invited Shane Shook, Venture Partner at Forgepoint Capital and longtime advisor to top security startups, to explore why false negatives (not false positives) are still the SOC’s most dangerous blind spot. Shane shares insights from 30+ years in incident response and threat detection on where organizations miss early signals, why overtuning rules makes things worse, and how AI can finally shift detection left without overwhe...

2 months ago

20 minutes

SuperSOC: Conversations with the People Shaping the Future of Security Operations

The MSSP vs. Enterprise Divide: How Autonomous AI Changes the SOC Service Model ft. Erik Bloch @illumio

In this episode, Ahmed Achchak (CEO & co-founder of Qevlar AI) sits down with Erik Bloch, VP of Security at illumio and former SOC leader at Salesforce and Atlassian, to explore how AI is blurring the traditional divide between MSSP and enterprise SOCs. Erik breaks down why MSSPs operate like standardized, metric-driven service products, while enterprise SOCs remain bespoke, and how autonomous AI might flip the script. You’ll discover: → Why AI fits naturally into MSSP workflows but strug...

3 months ago

21 minutes

SuperSOC: Conversations with the People Shaping the Future of Security Operations

Making AI Useful in the SOC: Data, Metrics & Human Skills ft. Dr. Anton Chuvakin @Google Cloud

AI promises to transform security operations but how much of that is actually happening today? In this episode, Ahmed Achchak (CEO of Qevlar AI) talks with Dr. Anton Chuvakin, Security Advisor at Office of the CISO at Google Cloud, to explore the real, measurable ways AI can improve your SOC and the hard limits many organizations overlook. You’ll discover: Where AI reliably adds value in security operations today and where it doesn’t.Why poor data, not weak models, is the biggest blocker to A...

4 months ago

16 minutes

SuperSOC: Conversations with the People Shaping the Future of Security Operations

From Playbooks to Agents: Rethinking Automation in the SOC with Filip Stojkovski

Most “AI-powered” security tools are just brittle automation wearing a fancy badge. In this episode, Qevlar AI CEO Ahmed Achchak sits down with cybersecurity automation expert Filip Stojkovski to ask the hard questions: Why are L1/L2 workflows still broken? What separates true AI agents from glorified SOAR playbooks? And how can you actually measure whether AI is making smart decisions or just moving faster? They break down the limits of traditional automation, expose “AI SOC” vendor red flag...

5 months ago

19 minutes