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Managed Services: Leader insights to turn vision into value

In today’s fast-paced business environment, organizations must not only define a clear vision for the future but also deliver measurable value through strategic decisions surrounding operations, resilience and long-term competitiveness. Vision to Value explores how to bridge that gap, with practical examples from EY leaders on how a managed services approach can help businesses execute more effectively to turn business ambitions into actual outcomes.

June 15, 2026

AI-powered attacks can breach organizational defenses within seconds, creating a widening gap between the speed of threats and the ability of security teams to respond. Explore why traditional security operations center (SOC) models are struggling to keep pace and how agentic AI can help organizations accelerate their response while preserving human oversight for critical decisions.

Key takeaways:

Attackers are increasingly using AI to operate at a speed that can outpace traditional security processes.
Human analysts remain critical for complex investigations, escalation decisions and risk oversight.
The future of security operations may depend on finding the right balance between automation, AI-enabled agents and human judgment.

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Speaker:

Todd Grober

EY Americas Cyber AI and Vulnerability Management Leader

How EY can help

Learn how the EY Agentic SOC, built on the CrowdStrike platform, can improve detection and response with real-time cybersecurity.
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The challenge that comes up often from SecOps leaders is how to handle the speed of threats due to attackers leveraging AI and the latest frontier AI models. Attackers are moving at machine speed, and teams are expected to respond faster with fewer people, limited budgets and higher alert volumes. We’re seeing confirmations the shift to AI is real based on average eCrime breakout times now being measured faster than manual SOC workflows can respond. Traditional SOC operating models are struggling to keep up because they were built around human triage, investigations and responses, in addition to spending time conducting shift handovers. When attacks were more manual based, this operating model was able to work more effectively. Forward-looking organizations are starting to shift towards agentic AI-driven security operations, where AI agents handle a lot of the high-volume, time-sensitive attacks at greater scale and speed. Agents can triage alerts, investigate activity and take or recommend actions in real time. Keeping humans in the loop on higher risk activities and more complex alert escalations is crucial for success with the agentic SOC.

EY’s Agentic SOC solution is different than traditional SOCs because it combines market-leading technology and AI agents with deep security expertise. It is built on CrowdStrike’s platform with custom agents that handle a variety of operational tasks. By allowing this solution to automate much of the security operations, the organizations we serve are able to have their people focus on higher value and more strategic outcomes. Machine speed threats and human limited operations is creating a huge gap that leaders can’t ignore. The best way to fight AI is with AI. Organizations that succeed will combine AI speed with human judgment. The agentic SOC powered by CrowdStrike is ready for you today and will keep you ready for the future.

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