Blumira Launches SOC Auto-Focus, An AI-Fueled Security Investigator

The new tool is designed to reduce the time from security incident occurring to remediation.

Blumira, a cybersecurity company that offers security and information event management (SIEM) and extended detection and response (XDR) solutions, announced Wednesday its latest offering, SOC Auto-Focus, which the company describes as an “AI-powered security investigation tool.”

Auto-Focus provides IT teams and MSPs security alerts translated into “plain language,” as well as a synopsis of the security event under alert, the company said in a news release.

Additionally, the new feature gives step-by-step instructions on security investigations, as well as remediation suggestions, and can provide risk patterns and best practices, Blumira said.

Auto-Focus is targeted to midmarket organizations as Blumira said it can expedite the time to parse through a security incident and get to resolution, particularly for teams that may be under-resourced.

That expediting is made possible with AI, Blumira CEO Matt Warner said in a news release, and, he said, without replacing human beings.

“The security industry has been promising AI solutions that replace human judgment, but that's not what teams actually need,” Warner said. “SOC Auto-Focus delivers something more valuable: the context and expertise to make better decisions faster. It's about amplifying human intelligence, not replacing it, and helping teams build their security expertise with every finding they investigate.”

Some benefits SOC Auto-Focus can provide organizations according to Blumira, include:

• The ability for organizations to measure ROI based on time to respond to security incidents
• Increased remediation rates
• Less security incident repeats

“Auto-Focus translates technical alerts into plain language summaries and points me directly to the impact,” said Travis Short in a news release.

Short is an SOC analyst at NineStar Connect, a community-based utility cooperative and managed service provider offering IT, network, and cybersecurity services to organizations throughout Indiana.

“[SOC Auto-Focus] bridges the knowledge gap instantly, saving me from spending time digging through logs or Googling for answers,” Short added.

Blumira’s announcement comes amid a slew of other tech companies’ announcements about new AI capabilities in their products and services.

Earlier this month, IT services provider Blue Mantis, unveiled a new lineup of services designed to assist midmarket organizations with their AI adoption journey.

ServiceNow, a cloud-based business process platform provider, released the ServiceNow AI Platform Zurich update in September. The update was designed to streamline multi-agentic app development and deployment, provide AI platform security, and offer autonomous workflows, the company said in a news release at the time.

In July, Strata Identity, a provider of Identity Access Management (IAM), announced its new product: Identity Orchestration for AI Agents.