AI-based security operations and analysis platform Igloo Corporation said on the 19th that it has newly obtained two technology patents to implement an Autonomous Security Operation Center (Autonomous SOC).
According to Igloo Corporation, concerns are growing over "AI-accelerated attacks" that target the brief window before security patches are rolled out, raising the importance of technologies that can secure the golden time of threat response and fundamentally strengthen security systems. The company said the patent acquisition is a strategy to respond to this trend.
An autonomous SOC is the highest maturity level among security operations models. In particular, an "agentic SOC," in which humans and AI agents collaborate to carry out judgment, reasoning, and response tasks across the SOC, is cited as the key path to reach it.
The patents Igloo Corporation obtained are technologies that strengthen threat triage and autonomous response, the core elements of an agentic SOC, and they apply to the key solutions and services that implement an agentic SOC.
The first patent selects and blocks high-risk attacks among security alerts, and the second patent allows AI to assess a system's security vulnerabilities and configuration errors and automatically apply optimal defensive measures.
Using this technology, threat intelligence and security posture data arising in on-premises and cloud environments can be analyzed in real time and operated as a single automated system from prevention to threat detection and post-incident response.
Igloo Corporation plans to accelerate the build-out of an agentic SOC system to reach an autonomous SOC by linking its hybrid extended detection and response (XDR) platform "Spider ExD," security operations automation (SOAR) solution "Spider SOAR," and AI agent "AiR." Security experts will focus on high-difficulty decision-making, while AI agents perform repetitive detection, analysis, and blocking.
Chief Executive Lee Deuk-chun of Igloo Corporation said, "With the recent emergence of tools that detect large language model (LLM) vulnerabilities one after another, a sense of crisis over 'AI-accelerated attacks' is mounting," and noted, "In response to these environmental changes, we are focusing on building an agentic SOC system, the key to opening the path to an autonomous SOC, which is the security operations direction that can strengthen fundamental cyber capabilities."
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