As you walk the halls of RSA Conference 2026, you’ll hear a shift in conversations. More discussions around artificial intelligence and how it’s changing security operations. It’s clear that something new is happening, and everyone is trying to understand what it means for the way we defend systems.
AI’s emerging role in the SOC
For years, the SOC’s focus was visibility. Organizations needed to collect logs, aggregate alerts, and watch for suspicious activity across increasingly complex environments. Over time, the industry built that visibility. Today, cloud platforms, identity systems, applications, and infrastructure all produce telemetry that can be analyzed.
But along the way, security teams achieved visibility at a scale that humans alone cannot realistically process.
Signals are everywhere. Events stream continuously across the environment. Analysts are no longer asking whether they can see what is happening. They are asking something much harder: what does it mean?
Analysts must quickly determine which activity matters, how events relate to one another, and whether a signal represents the early stages of an attack. The difference between noise and insight often comes down to how quickly that context can be assembled.
Artificial intelligence is beginning to play an important role in that process. Systems that once simply collected telemetry can now help correlate signals, reveal patterns, and summarize the evidence surrounding an event. Instead of searching through fragmented data sources, you can focus your attention on understanding what the context is telling you.
Step into the Dojo Challenge at RSAC 2026
At Sumo Logic, helping analysts move from data to decisions is central to our approach to security analytics. It is also the inspiration behind what we are bringing to RSA this year.
Rather than building a booth that simply shows our platform, we wanted to create something interactive that reflects how modern investigations actually happen. Something that captures the rhythm of a real security investigation as signals gradually reveal their meaning.
The result is an experience we call the Dojo Challenge.
The name comes from the idea of a training ground. In many disciplines, a dojo is where practitioners refine their craft. It is a place where learning happens through practice, where patterns become familiar, and where intuition develops through experience.
Security analysts develop their instincts in much the same way. The more investigations they perform, the more quickly they recognize how signals connect and how incidents take shape.
Inside the Sumo Logic booth 6465 at RSAC, you will be invited to step into that investigative mindset. Rather than watching a scripted demonstration, you will see a scenario that begins with a signal appearing in the environment. What follows mirrors the journey you take every day as you work to understand what that signal represents.
At first, the picture is incomplete. As context emerges and relationships among systems, identities, and activities become visible, the narrative of the incident begins to unfold. Signals that once appeared isolated begin to form patterns. The investigation gathers momentum.
The system itself begins assisting the analyst, helping assemble context and surface the information needed to understand what is happening. AI becomes a partner in the investigation, revealing connections that might otherwise remain buried within the data.
The Dojo Challenge reflects the broader transformation in security operations. AI is not replacing analysts, nor is it magically solving every security problem. Instead, it helps you interpret signals and understand their meaning by assembling the context that allows those decisions to happen faster.
At RSAC this year, that shift will be visible across the conference. Vendors, practitioners, and researchers will all be exploring what AI means for the future of cybersecurity. Some will focus on defensive automation, others on new forms of attack detection, and still others on securing AI itself.
Our focus is on amplifying the power of human analysts with AI, helping them improve their investigative speed and confidence. The Dojo Challenge brings this to life.
Stop by booth 6465 to see Dojo AI in action
If you are attending RSA Conference 2026, we invite you to stop by booth #6465 and step into the Dojo.
Follow the signal. Let the investigation unfold. And most importantly, see if you can complete the challenge.
We look forward to seeing you there. See what’s on the agenda at RSAC 2026.
