--- title: What Our AI SOC Analyst Can Do (and What We Won’t Let It Do) description: Huntress explains the design of Athena, its agentic AI SOC analyst, detailing what it is permitted to do autonomously versus what remains gated behind human... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/what-our-ai-soc-analyst-can-do-and-what-we-won-t-let-it-do--d9dnlzhfu twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: What Our AI SOC Analyst Can Do (and What We Won’t Let It Do) | daily.dev og:description: Huntress explains the design of Athena, its agentic AI SOC analyst, detailing what it is permitted to do autonomously versus what remains gated behind human... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/what-our-ai-soc-analyst-can-do-and-what-we-won-t-let-it-do--d9dnlzhfu og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/d9DnlzHfu.png og:image:alt: What Our AI SOC Analyst Can Do (and What We Won’t Let It Do) og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # What Our AI SOC Analyst Can Do (and What We Won’t Let It Do) **[Huntress Blog](https://daily.dev/sources/huntress-blog)** · 4 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Huntress explains the design of Athena, its agentic AI SOC analyst, detailing what it is permitted to do autonomously versus what remains gated behind human review. Athena can run full investigations, reach high-confidence malicious determinations, act on them without handoff, and draft incident reports. It cannot close cases as benign without human review, cannot modify its own playbooks or guardrails, and does not make final calls on cases escalated to human analysts. The piece frames this as a deliberate accountability architecture meant to build customer trust, positioning human analysts as owners of the guardrails while Athena handles clear-cut, high-volume findings at scale. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### What can Huntress's AI SOC analyst Athena do without human approval? Athena can run full investigations on high-priority signals, pull telemetry, reach a malicious determination when confidence is high, and send a full incident report with remediation guidance directly to the customer without human handoff. It cannot close any case as benign, modify its own playbooks or guardrails, or make final decisions on cases escalated for human review. _Teams weighing AI autonomy in security workflows can track how vendors design these guardrails on daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Meet Athena: Huntress' Agentic SOC Analyst](https://daily.dev/posts/meet-athena-huntress-agentic-soc-analyst-u5zergkm9) · Huntress Blog · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [How We Cut Noise Before It Hits the Analyst](https://daily.dev/posts/how-we-cut-noise-before-it-hits-the-analyst-bgnuywtn8) · Huntress Blog · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Aurora Agentic SOC Is Building Next Generation of SOC Analysts](https://daily.dev/posts/aurora-agentic-soc-is-building-next-generation-of-soc-analysts-jazwpqldx) · Arctic Wolf · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [AI Attacks Move Faster. 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