Over the last year working with SOC teams, one thing has become clear to me: we don’t just have an alert volume problem, we have a detection quality problem. Many AI SOC platforms focus on handling and closing alerts faster. At AiStrike, we’re obsessed with a complementary goal: preventing bad alerts from existing in the first place. In one recent deployment, a customer generated roughly 14K alerts over six months. One detection rule alone was responsible for ~90% of them. On paper, it looked like a high-value rule. In reality, it was drowning the SOC in noise.

Our detection optimization agent did what a human rarely has time to do:

• Clustered the alerts
• Mapped them to entities
• Pulled in identity and asset context
• Traced everything back to the detection logic

The agent found that most alerts traced back to a single host and legitimate user account interacting with a legitimate business service. After a quick check with the customer, we confirmed the rule’s intent was completely different. The detection itself was simply too broad.

So the issue wasn’t the user.

It wasn’t malicious activity.

It was the detection.

Instead of tagging these as false positives and moving on, we tuned the detection: narrowed conditions, excluded legitimate activity, and aligned it with real risk.

Result:

• The noisy rule quietly disappeared
• Alert noise dropped by ~90% with a simple detection adjustment
• Analysts got their time and focus back
• Detection quality improved instead of being weakened

This is what a proactive AI SOC should be doing:

using alerts, threat intel, exposure assessment, and organization context as continuous feedback to

improve detections, not just triage faster. There’s another dynamic worth calling out. Many AI SOC platforms price based on alert volume. More alerts processed = more revenue. AiStrike’s pricing is not tied to alerts.

We’re economically incentivized to reduce noise at the source and improve outcomes, not maintain a large alert pipeline.If your AI SOC vendor only talks about how quickly they close alerts, ask them a simple question:

👉How are you helping me generate fewer, smarter alerts in the first place?

The future AI SOC won’t be defined by how fast it closes alerts. It will be defined by how effectively it improves the detections behind them.

That’s the bar we’re holding ourselves to at AiStrike.