Atomic Zero

Atomic Zero AI SOC Transformation

Score the SOC you have.Design the SOC you need.

Measure operational maturity, telemetry readiness, AI governance, and where automation can return analyst capacity without removing human judgment from the decisions that matter.

People + ProcessTelemetry + ArchitectureGovernance + Automation

Readiness

42/100

Operations

40/100

Telemetry

50/100

Governance

35/100

Transformation model

Decide where humans lead, where AI assists, and where autonomy is justified.

The scorecard uses four operating modes. The objective is not maximum automation. It is the right operating boundary for each security activity.

01

Human Led

Major incident command, business risk, executive communication, legal and regulatory decisions.

02

AI Assisted

Research, summaries, query generation, threat intelligence, and investigation recommendations.

03

AI Executed

AI performs repeatable investigation work, while a human validates or approves the outcome.

04

Autonomous

Pre-approved actions execute within defined permissions, audit controls, and response boundaries.

Interactive assessment

Build your AI SOC readiness profile.

Score what exists today. The result shows the strongest transformation path and where Atomic Zero should validate the environment in a deeper assessment.

01 · SOC operations

Alert triage maturity

How consistently are alerts prioritized and deduplicated today?

2

Investigation maturity

How structured and repeatable is analyst investigation across tools?

2

Threat hunting maturity

How often does the team conduct proactive hunts beyond alert response?

2

Incident response maturity

How defined are escalation, scoping, containment, and recovery workflows?

2

Detection engineering maturity

How mature are rule creation, tuning, testing, and coverage management?

2

Case management maturity

How consistent are documentation, evidence tracking, and closure?

2

02 · Telemetry and integration

SIEM data availability

Can investigators reliably access the telemetry needed for analysis?

3

EDR visibility

Is endpoint evidence available and searchable across the estate?

3

Identity telemetry

Can identity, authentication, and privilege activity be investigated quickly?

3

Email security visibility

Can analysts correlate sender, recipient, click, and message activity?

2

Cloud telemetry

Can the SOC investigate cloud control-plane and workload activity?

2

API and integration readiness

Can AI securely query the tools that hold investigation evidence?

2

03 · AI governance

AI permission model

Are least-privilege permissions defined for AI access?

2

Human approval model

Are human review requirements explicit for AI-generated actions?

2

Auditability

Can the organization trace AI evidence, decisions, and actions?

2

Autonomous response boundaries

Are actions that AI may execute without approval clearly defined?

1

04 · Workload profile

Alerts per month

Use the average number of alerts entering analyst queues each month.

2500

Minutes per investigation

Estimate average hands-on analyst time for a typical investigation.

28 min

Repetitive analyst work

Estimate how much analyst effort follows known, repeatable investigation steps.

55%

Atomic Zero readout

AI-Assisted SOC

Stage 2

Readiness

42

Automation potential

1%

Primary gap

AI governance

Capacity recovery

67 hrs/mo

The foundation exists for analyst assistance. Focus on investigation summaries, evidence gathering, query generation, and repeatable enrichment before expanding autonomy.

Lowest readiness domain: AI governance, 35/100.

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SOC automation heatmap

A starting point for workshop discussion.

Every organization will set different boundaries. Use this as a working model for deciding where AI should assist, execute, or remain behind human approval.

SOC activity

Target mode

Alert intake

A3

Alert prioritization

A2

Threat enrichment

A3

SIEM investigation

A2

EDR investigation

A2

Identity investigation

A2

Email investigation

A2

Cloud investigation

A2

Timeline reconstruction

A3

Blast radius analysis

A2

Incident summarization

A3

Threat hunting

A1/A2

Detection engineering

A1

Case documentation

A3

Containment

A2

Executive communication

H

30 / 60 / 90

Turn the score into a transformation sequence.

Atomic Zero uses the workshop score to frame a deeper environment-specific assessment across people, process, technology, telemetry, architecture, and governance.

0 to 30 days

Assess

Map investigation workflows, quantify analyst time, inventory integrations, validate telemetry, and define AI permissions.

30 to 60 days

Augment

Pilot repeatable AI-led investigations with human validation. Establish baseline metrics for time, consistency, and backlog.

60 to 90 days

Transform

Expand integrations, introduce controlled response actions, and shift recovered analyst capacity into hunting, detection engineering, and major incidents.

“The workshop gives you a directional score. The Atomic Zero assessment turns that score into an operating model, architecture, governance boundary, and implementation plan.”

Why now

Alert volume and tool sprawl continue to consume analyst time that could be spent on higher-value security work.

What changes

AI becomes an investigation layer between telemetry and human decision-making.

What to prove

Time recovered, investigation consistency, backlog reduction, and increased proactive hunting capacity.

The ask

Validate the score against the real environment before committing to a transformation sequence.

Scores and capacity estimates are illustrative planning outputs. Actual results depend on alert quality, telemetry coverage, investigation complexity, integrations, operating practices, and response controls.

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