Conifers Named in AI SOC Agents Category in the Gartner® Hype Cycle™ for AI-Driven Cybersecurity, 2026

Inclusion comes as Conifers demonstrates enterprise-ready resilient cyber defense operations, delivering accuracy, consistency, and scalability across complex security environments

DALLAS and TEL AVIV, Israel, Oct. 26, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Conifers, developer of the CognitiveSOC™ agentic AI SOC platform, today announced that it has been named a Sample Vendor for AI SOC Agents in the Gartner® Hype Cycle™ for AI-Driven Cybersecurity, 2026. As organizations increasingly turn to agentic AI to modernize security operations, improve efficiency, and address growing operational complexity, "this Hype Cycle enables CISOs to use AI innovations to enhance cybersecurity programs and more effectively support AI initiatives with strong security guidance," according to Gartner.

In production enterprise environments, CognitiveSOC delivers resilient security operations with the accuracy, consistency, and scalability security organizations require. To date, the platform has completed millions of investigations across customer environments. CognitiveSOC connects threat intelligence, threat hunting, detection engineering, investigation, and remediation into a single, continuously adapting agentic system. Instead of automating isolated tasks in disconnected workflows, it lets these functions work together, sharing context and informing one another. The platform keeps an up-to-date understanding of each organization's environment, security posture, and operational priorities, so teams can make faster, better-informed decisions under governance and oversight their own people define.

"To us, being recognized in the AI SOC Agents category in this Hype Cycle comes at a pivotal time, as enterprises move beyond experimenting with AI SOC agents and begin demanding proven operational results," said Tom Findling, CEO and co-founder of Conifers. "Enterprise security teams need AI they can trust to operate accurately, consistently, and at scale across complex environments. We're demonstrating that agentic AI can deliver those outcomes in production, while connecting security operations functions into one continuously adapting system that moves at attacker speed. That's what enterprise-ready resilient cyber defense needs to look like."

Conifers' recent research report, The Detection Blind Spot, shows why this matters. Based on 14,652 detections across live enterprise environments, the research found that 47% of deployed detections required attention to function as intended, while organizations had operational coverage for only 63% of the threats they had already identified as relevant. The findings highlight a broader challenge facing modern SOCs: security teams may have the intelligence and tools needed to identify threats but disconnected workflows and manual processes can keep that knowledge from becoming operational defense. Addressing these gaps requires security operations that can continuously validate coverage, adapt detections, and translate intelligence into action.

Gartner Research Reference

Gartner, Hype Cycle for AI-Driven Cybersecurity, 2026, Jeremy D'Hoinne, Craig Porter, Josh Murphy, Christine Lee, October 12, 2026. View report.

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About Conifers

Conifers builds CognitiveSOC™, the agentic AI SOC platform that powers resilient cyber defense. It connects threat intelligence, threat hunting, detection engineering, investigation, and remediation as one adaptive system on top of the security tools organizations already own. Organizations use CognitiveSOC to evolve their existing security operations into a continuously adapting operating layer that keeps pace with AI-driven threats. Learn more at conifers.ai.

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