Dropzone AI
@DropzoneAI

SecOps Reimagined with Intelligence Augmentation

 Based in United States
dropzone.ai
Joined July 2023
Why would a security team want AI agents to investigate fewer alerts, on purpose? On the @TEISS teissTalk panel, Dropzone AI Founder and CEO Edward Wu explains a mode some customers asked for. It sends about 1% of alerts straight to the analysts, and the AI agents leave those alone. The idea comes from airport security, where staff slip test items into luggage to check if TSA screeners are paying attention. The full episode is on demand here 👉 bit.ly/4gqAQHa
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"I didn't need a rep to explain what an agentic SOC does. The booth explained it to me while I was still walking in." A Black Hat attendee on the AI SOC Diner, where AI SOC Analyst and AI Threat Hunter worked real alerts, live and unscripted, all week. The question of the week moved from "does it work" to "show your work." If you were there, what would it take for an AI agent to earn a spot in your SOC?
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36.090622, -115.179115 Course locked. Destination: Black Hat USA 2026. Droppert grabbed his diner cap, fired up the thrusters, and set a course for Mandalay Bay. The @DropzoneAI AI SOC Diner opens Aug 4th-6th in the Business Hall at Booth 3740. Reinforcements have arrived. 🔊
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Turn on @CNBC at 5:15pm ET today because @DropzoneAI made it on national TV! 🚀 We're also in a segment on @AllAccessGarcia on the 27th. We'll share the details next week. Dropzone AI set out to build the agentic SOC when others called it a someday idea. Now it's real, and on the national stage. 🚀 Reinforcements have arrived.
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Deterministic verdicts from a non-deterministic model. From RSAC 2026, @SecWeekly talks with Edward Wu, Founder and CEO of Dropzone AI, on how a coordinated AI agent team investigates and hunts at machine speed, and why the reasoning stays visible. Link to the Edwards segment👉 bit.ly/4gFYKAh
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"What just happened?" Here's how the AI SOC Analyst answers it: alert → collect evidence → reason recursively → verdict in plain English → contain confirmed threats → remember. No black box. Just the reasoning, on the record, for your team to sign off on. See it investigate on real alerts → dropzone.ai/self-guided-demo
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AI in the SOC is going from assisting analysts to acting on its own, and the proof just hasn't caught up yet. The 2026 Gartner® Hype Cycle™ for Security Operations maps the shift and warns hard about "GenAI washing" and "agent washing." Download your copy 👉 bit.ly/4vUYulg
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The AI Threat Hunter gives you 280+ prebuilt hunt packs, ready on demand or on a schedule. Start one and it surfaces only what matters. In one real environment it caught web shell tunneling that would've taken an analyst over a week. See what it finds 👉 bit.ly/4agSB9x #ThreatHunting
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The AI SOC Analyst shows its work. Every query, every reason behind the verdict. You set the direction; it executes at machine speed. The AI Threat Hunter hunts what never trips an alert. Try it on a real alert. Link to our self-guided demo 👉 bit.ly/4blh9yz Reinforcements have arrived.
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A quiet alert queue isn't a clean environment. Lateral movement, living-off-the-land, and valid-account abuse sit below the detection threshold and surface only when someone hunts. A thorough hunt is hours of cross-tool work, so teams manage a few a quarter. Autonomous hunting makes it hypothesis-driven, federated, and continuous, with analysts directing instead of querying. See how autonomous threat hunting works → bit.ly/4agSB9x
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Patrick Duffy is joining Dropzone AI as Head of Product. He joins from Material Security, after building the MDR category's first automated remediation capability at Expel. At Dropzone AI, he'll lead product and UX as we grow the Agentic SOC, building AI agents security teams trust for high-confidence work across investigation, threat hunting, and incident response. Welcome to the team, Patrick! Read the Press Release bit.ly/4xCi4EA
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Dropzone AI is a 2026 Intellyx Digital Innovator Award winner. The recognition follows our analyst briefing with @Intellyx on the Agentic SOC: AI agents that investigate alerts, respond to emerging threats, and hunt attackers, so security teams scale detection and response without scaling headcount. Full 2026 winners list: bit.ly/4dVfUYM
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A quiet alert queue isn't a clean environment. Lateral movement, living-off-the-land, and valid-account abuse sit below the detection threshold and surface only when someone hunts. A thorough hunt is hours of cross-tool work, so teams manage a few a quarter. Autonomous hunting makes it hypothesis-driven, federated, and continuous, with analysts directing instead of querying. See how it works -> dropzone.ai/product/ai-threa…
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His own AI agent escaped his lab. It remembered a jump server he'd used once and found its way out, past his firewalls. On the latest Beyond the Alert, our podcast for security operations leaders, host Anne Gotay talks with Dhruv Majumdar of Fleet Device Management about why he now treats AI like malware, and why you can't hand response to a machine on its own. Watch on YouTube: piped.video/K62roTLa6Qo
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"Autonomous" is the easy part. Staying in control is the hard part. Meet AI Threat Hunter, the newest agent on the Dropzone AI team, is now in closed beta. You set the scope and authorization. The agent runs federated hunts across your stack and logs every step. Up to 40 hours of hunting in about an hour. Watch a hunt run end to end: bit.ly/4edxyqA
The image shows a dashboard titled "T1572: Protocol Tunneling." It displays a completed task with details such as completion date, duration, data transferred, and hosts involved. The "Summary" section outlines a breach investigation, identifying DNS-over-HTTPS as a tunneling vector. "Recommendations" suggest network segmentation and DNS monitoring. The "Results" section categorizes findings into "3 Urgent," "1 Notable," and "2 Informational," with corresponding detection details.

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Detection isn't the hard part. Blast radius is. After your gateway flags the phishing email, you still need to know who clicked the link, who entered creds, and whose inbox is forwarding it. Our AI SOC Analyst runs that investigation automatically: dropzone.ai/blog/phishing-bl…
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Claude Mythos can find novel exploits faster than vendors can patch them, and detection rules can't catch what has no signature. But every attacker still has to do something once they're inside. In an agentic SOC, AI agents investigate every alert end to end and correlate the ones that were dismissed, instead of waiting for a known pattern. Full breakdown: bit.ly/4nqbc8o
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Most SOCs don't run threat hunts as often as they should. Time and expertise are scarce. At today's SANS Spring Cyber Solutions Fest 2026 Detection & Response Track, our team shows what changes when AI agents handle the hunt. "From Intel to Action: Autonomous Threat Hunting with AI Agents." Live demo at 2:15 PM EDT. Virtual and Free to attend. Christopher A. (Director of Sales Engineering) and Andrew Jerry (SOC Automation Lead) walk through federated hunting across SIEM, EDR, cloud, and identity. Register Now: bit.ly/3OKrRa5
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Most SOC teams start with their most critical alerts. That's why they stay underwater. On the latest episode of Beyond the Alert with Anne Gotay, Darren LaCasse, Director of Threat Intelligence, Detection & Response at Elastic, shares his approach to clearing the queue. He sorts on volume, clears the biggest bucket, then asks why those alerts existed at all. piped.video/FoHP8MrPYko
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More AI capability can mean more attack surface. Unbounded agents turn every permission into a blast radius. Every plugin is inherited exposure. The answer isn't less AI. It's structured autonomy. Where exactly is that line? bit.ly/4uhs03L #AISecurity #AIAgents
This image is an infographic from Dropzone AI, titled "Structured Autonomy: Transforming the AI Agent Risk Profile." It contrasts "Unbounded Agent" and "Structured Autonomy." On the left, the unbounded agent risk explanation features red icons and connected lines, depicting increased risk. A "blast radius" effect is mentioned. The right section shows "How structured autonomy works" in three phases: Brain/thoughts (LLM reasoning), Funnel narrowing (instructions scoped), and Ledger/audit controls (restricted execution). A humanoid robot is shown centrally. Key benefits of structured autonomy include blast radius containment and governance-embedded execution. A footer states, "Autonomy Without Guardrails Is Just a Bigger Attack Surface.

ALT This image is an infographic from Dropzone AI, titled "Structured Autonomy: Transforming the AI Agent Risk Profile." It contrasts "Unbounded Agent" and "Structured Autonomy." On the left, the unbounded agent risk explanation features red icons and connected lines, depicting increased risk. A "blast radius" effect is mentioned. The right section shows "How structured autonomy works" in three phases: Brain/thoughts (LLM reasoning), Funnel narrowing (instructions scoped), and Ledger/audit controls (restricted execution). A humanoid robot is shown centrally. Key benefits of structured autonomy include blast radius containment and governance-embedded execution. A footer states, "Autonomy Without Guardrails Is Just a Bigger Attack Surface.
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Microsoft Defender called it "medium severity." It was a DPRK supply chain RAT in an npm package with 83M weekly downloads. Our AI agents investigated every alert regardless of label. They caught it. Read the debrief: dropzone.ai/blog/blog-axios-… #SupplyChainSecurity
The image is an infographic titled "Detection vs. Verdict: The Axios Supply Chain Attack," featuring logos of Microsoft Defender and Dropzone AI. It is divided into three sections: "What Detection Saw," highlighting a medium severity alert from Microsoft Defender; "What Investigation Did," explaining various response steps like trace execution and threat intel validation; and "What It Actually Was," detailing the identification of a malicious, urgent threat. There are icons and text throughout the sections providing additional details.

ALT The image is an infographic titled "Detection vs. Verdict: The Axios Supply Chain Attack," featuring logos of Microsoft Defender and Dropzone AI. It is divided into three sections: "What Detection Saw," highlighting a medium severity alert from Microsoft Defender; "What Investigation Did," explaining various response steps like trace execution and threat intel validation; and "What It Actually Was," detailing the identification of a malicious, urgent threat. There are icons and text throughout the sections providing additional details.
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Dropzone AI SOC Analyst just won the 2026 BIG Innovation Award 🏆 Honored to be recognized among 159 global trailblazers for innovation that delivers measurable results. Detection and response teams don't need more pilots. They need AI that works autonomously. See the winners: bit.ly/3YDxojV @BigAwards
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We're honored to receive the 2026 Big Innovation Award from @BIGAwards in the Innovative Products category for our AI SOC Analyst! 🚀 As we build toward humans and AI agents working together on threat hunting, detection engineering, and forensics, this recognition means a lot to us. bit.ly/4a9fQSf
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Operations Manager in the Services (non-Government) Industry gives Dropzone AI 5/5 Rating in Gartner Peer Insights™ IT Security Market. 🏆 "Our experience with Dropzone AI has been exceptional." Minimal setup. Intuitive interface. Consolidates IR tools into one place. Read the full review here: gtnr.io/dd9CyJM4D #gartnerpeerinsights
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We're building toward the fully agentic SOC. Human analysts augmented by specialized AI agents for threat hunting, detection engineering, forensics, and threat intelligence. Entire Detection and Response functions operating at machine scale with human strategy directing them. Our mission: weaponize LLMs for cyber defenders. bwnews.pr/3Zd1jj0
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When every AI SOC vendor claims the same integrations, what are you comparing besides the UI? Tomorrow 1 PM ET: @edwardxwu joins @CISOSeries "Hacking SOC Workflow" with Cenlar FSB CISO Jason Shockey & @dspark. This is the conversation the AI SOC space needs. bit.ly/49tVi6z #SOC #AISOC
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"How does AI actually investigate alerts?" Here's what happens when Dropzone AI gets a detection: → Strategizes the investigation → Gathers evidence across your tools → Builds a defensible conclusion The cool part? You see the reasoning behind every step. bit.ly/49a3OYh
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Andrew Jerry is a skilled analyst. He investigated an Azure Sentinel alert using the same tools as our AI SOC analyst. 7 minutes later, the AI had a complete verdict while Andrew was still gathering context. See the comparison in action: bit.ly/4iKSw0H
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Happy Thanksgiving to our incredible investors, customers, partners, and the cybersecurity community! #HappyThanksgiving
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First independent benchmark of AI in the SOC: 148 analysts, real investigations, hard evidence. In tomorrow's webinar: CSA CEO, former Robinhood CISO, and Dropzone AI Founder share the results and what the data means for SOC leaders adopting AI. Register now: bit.ly/3KbVjTQ
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We salute those who served and the cyber defenders protecting our nation today. From the battlefield to the SOC, your vigilance keeps America safe. Thank you for your service! 🤝 #VeteransDay #CyberSecurity
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SOC Analyst in the IT Services Industry gives Dropzone AI 5/5 Rating in Gartner Peer Insights™ IT Security Market. Read the full review here: bit.ly/3VLx2q6
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We've made this year's #Cyber60 List, presented by @lightspeedvp, @FortuneMagazine, and @AWSstartups! 🎉 It's an honor to be included as one of the top 60 venture-backed cybersecurity companies. Check out the full list: bit.ly/4hTKimR
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Honored to be a Top InfoSec Innovator Awards 2025 finalist in AI Security Solution and AI SOC Analyst categories. AI works best when it augments defenders, not replaces them. Thanks @CyberDefenseMag for spotlighting innovation. #CyberSecurity #AISOCAgent
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"Humans are noisy creatures. We do a lot of weird things that trigger weird detections." Watch SE Christopher Abella explain how Dropzone AI investigates user behavior to reveal what's actually happening, not just what triggered the alert.
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🚨 BREAKING: The first-ever independent study on AI SOC agents is here. The Cloud Security Alliance @cloudsa tested 148 security professionals in real-world alert investigations using @DropzoneAI. The study changes everything for SOC teams drowning in alerts. Get the full study: bit.ly/42rTU1s #AISOCAgent #AISOC #SOCAutomation #CyberSecurity #DropzoneAI
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We have a new Gartner Peer Insights snippet to share on social. The image is attached. Thanks! Here's the copy they gave us to use: SOC Analyst in the IT Services Industry gives Dropzone AI 5/5 Rating in Gartner Peer Insights™ IT Security Market. Read the full review here: bit.ly/3VLx2q6 #gartnerpeerinsights #DropzoneAI
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📢 Webinar: "Weaponizing AI for Cyber Defense: A Maturity Model for the AI SOC" Learn to evolve from correlation engines to advanced agentic workflows with former Levi Strauss CISO Steve Zalewski, and @DropzoneAI PM Tyson Supasatit on Tuesday Sept 9th at 10am PST. Register Today! bit.ly/4na1QfD
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We're honored to be named a 2025 #IA40 winner! 🎉 The #IA40 highlights the top private AI & intelligent app companies shaping the future. Thank you to @MadronaVentures, @AWSstartups, @Microsoft, @googlecloud, @NYSE, @Delta, @GoldmanSachs & @McKinsey for the recognition! bit.ly/3Xj7ctJ
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Kevin Turnbull from Assala Energy puts it perfectly: "With Dropzone, we don't get 'This is a problem,' we get 'This is a problem and here's why.'" The results prove it: 🔹 100% of alerts investigated (no blind spots) 🔹 Triage time cut from 25 to under 5 minutes 🔹 70% fewer false positives to review 🔹 5x faster MTTR Learn how Assala Energy scaled security operations with AI augmentation. #SOC #Cybersecurity #AIAugmentation #DropzoneAI
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Every business function needs efficiency gains. But for security teams? It's critical. Our CEO Edward Wu discusses the "glaringly obvious" need for better alert investigations—and why teams everywhere want to do more without adding headcount. #AIAgents #AgenticAI #AISOCAnalyst #SecOps #DropzoneAI
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You're asleep. Your kid's sick. You're off the clock. But threats don’t wait. Human analysts need sleep—AI SOC analysts don’t. Always-on, end-to-end investigations. 👉 Watch and share this video of @DanielMiessler who spotlights the reality every SOC team faces. How are you handling alerts at 2am? #AgenticAI #AIAgents #AISOCAnalyst #DropzoneAI
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Excited to announce: Dropzone AI is a finalist in the 2025 CyberShark Pitch Competition that was held at the #RSAConference! 🏆 Our AI SOC Analysts impressed 10 CISO judges by cutting alert investigation time from 40 min to 5 min, enabling security teams to process 100% of alerts. See for yourself, try our self-guided demo 📎 bit.ly/3F1TXIJ
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🔄 AI SOC Analysts: The force multiplier every stretched security team needs. When SOC teams are overwhelmed, our AI handles alert investigations in 5 minutes instead of 40, enabling complete coverage without expanding your team. Your security experts can now focus on high-value strategic threat hunting while our context-aware AI manages the repetitive investigation work—augmenting human capabilities, never replacing them. Watch how our founder Edward Wu explains this partnership ⬇️ #AISOC #CyberSecurity #SOCAutomation #DropzoneAI
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🎉 Welcome to Dropzone AI, Kaila Western, our new Head of Customer Success! Kaila will build our CS function from the ground up, ensuring security teams get maximum value from our AI SOC analyst. Please join us in welcoming Kaila to the team! ✨
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Our RSA booth is buzzing with activity! 🔥 Stop by the Early Stage Expo to join the conversation and see our AI SOC analyst in action. We're talking real SOC challenges, alert investigation workflows, and how teams are adapting to the changing security landscape. Still time to enter our Yeti cooler raffle before the conference wraps! Find us at booth ESE-60. #RSAC2025 #SOCAutomation #DropzoneAI #AgenticAI
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The Dropzone AI team is on their way to #BSidesSF 2025 as a Silver Sponsor! BSides has always been where the security community shares insights from the trenches beyond the marketing noise. Attending? Stop by our booth to see how an AI teammate works alongside analysts, not replacing them. #RSAC2025 #CyberSecurity #DropzoneAI
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End-of-shift dilemma: thoroughly investigate the weird alert or just mark it 'false positive' and pray? Every SOC analyst feels this pain!
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Introducing COACH: Our free Chrome extension that mentors security analysts through investigations when they need guidance the most. 🔍 Every analyst knows that feeling - staring at an unfamiliar alert, unsure where to begin. The power of AI is in augmenting humans, not replacing them. COACH builds investigative skills with expert guidance when senior analysts are unavailable. Strengthen the cybersecurity talent pipeline while accelerating your team's growth! Just featured by @Taylor_Soper at @geekwire! (Link in replies) Download now: bit.ly/3R7iWNo #SOCAnalyst #ThreatDetection #CyberSecurity #Threat Intelligence
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Dropzone AI is coming to #RSAC2025! Visit us at Booth ESE-60 in the Early Stage Expo to see how our AI SOC analysts work alongside security teams to tackle critical threats. Stop by our booth and enter to win a YETI Cooler while you're there! See you at RSA! #CyberSecurity #AISOCAnalyst #SOC #RSAC2025
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AI models struggle to break down security investigations into parts and work across different threads. Watch Kyle Polley explain why specialized AI models collaborating across email, cloud trails, and EDR, similar to how SOC analysts work together, deliver more accurate results for complex, multi-path investigations. How is your security team approaching AI collaboration? #CyberSecurity #ThreatDetection #AIModels #SOCEfficiency
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