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

Most SOCs today are still built around the same assumption: wait for an alert, investigate it, move to the next one. But what happens when AI becomes capable of doing much more than alert triage? In this episode, Ahmed Achchak (CEO & Co-founder of Qevlar AI) sits down with Rob van Os, Strategic SOC Advisor at SOC-CMM, to discuss what comes after the alert-centric SOC and why the future of secu...

Mythos may be the biggest cybersecurity AI announcement we’ve seen so far but is it actually a revolution for attackers, or just another overhyped AI moment? In this episode, Ahmed Achchak (CEO of Qevlar AI) sits down with cybersecurity consultant Dave McKenzie to break down what Mythos really changes for defenders, why most organizations are focusing on the wrong risks, and what SOC teams should...

AI is making security operations faster but not necessarily smarter. In this episode, Ahmed Achchak (CEO & Co-founder of Qevlar AI) sits down with Raffael Marty, cybersecurity veteran and early pioneer of SIEM and security analytics, to unpack why SOCs still struggle to understand attacks and what’s been missing all along: a true intelligence layer. You’ll discover: → Why 20+ years of SIEM and...

Security teams often try to improve their SOC by adding more tools. Mature organizations approach the problem differently: they design systems. The real leverage comes from architecture — how telemetry, detections, identities, and workflows fit together into a coherent operational platform. In this episode, Ahmed Achchak (Co-founder & CEO of Qevlar AI) speaks with Demetrius Comes, VP of Securi...

Most SOCs say they’re “not ready for AI.” Others rush in, hoping AI will magically fix years of neglected fundamentals. Both approaches aren’t ideal. In this episode, Ahmed Achchak (CEO & Co-founder, Qevlar AI) sits down with Rafal Kitab, Director of SecOps & Incident Response at ConnectWise, to talk about when exactly AI should be added in the SOC. Rafal argues that AI doesn’t fix broken...

Is your SOC ready for the new era of GenAI attacks? In this episode, Ahmed Achchak sits down with Jai Minton, Senior Manager of Hunt & Response at Huntress, to break down how attackers consistently bypass even “mature” SOCs by abusing legitimate tools, blending into normal behavior, and operating in places defenders rarely monitor closely. This conversation is for SOC leaders who want to under...

Most enterprises talk about unifying IT, OT and cloud security, but very few actually pull it off. In this episode, Ahmed has invited Daniel Kästle, former Head of Cyber Defense at Mercedes-Benz, to break down what it really takes to move from three isolated security worlds to a risk-driven cyber defense capability. You’ll discover: → Why IT, OT and cloud security remain stubbornly siloed, and why...

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 infra...

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 un...

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 o...

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 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...

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 mov...