So you’re ready to “hire” an agent or two for security operations.
While AI agents won’t replace your human analysts, they are quickly becoming indispensable team members. Choosing the right ones should resemble a typical hiring process: you need to determine if they possess the necessary skills to fill your team’s gaps, work effectively with others, and grow with your organization.
Here are five questions worth asking before you bring an AI agent on board in your SOC.
Where did you go to school?
Sure, AI agents don’t go to college, but they do need to learn how to do their job somewhere. Understanding the foundation models and data sources behind an agent is equivalent to checking its alma mater.
Sumo Logic Dojo AI uses Amazon Bedrock as the secure, enterprise-grade environment to host and serve the LLMs that power Dojo AI. Combined with our years of log analytics and security experience, we’ve shaped our agents to think and act like members of a SOC team.
In short, know where your agent “studied.” It will tell you what it knows, how it learned, and whether you can trust it with the keys to your kingdom.
Can we check your references and run a background check?
If you’re letting agents in on your sensitive company information and customer data, you need to be certain they can be trusted to keep it private. A good way to assess an agent’s trustworthiness is to verify their industry-recognized security certifications and attestations.
Sumo Logic adheres to strict data privacy standards, which extend to our agents, including FedRAMP Moderate, SOC2 Type 2, HIPAA, PCI DSS, and ISO 27001.
Are you a team player?
Even the smartest agent can’t operate in a silo. The best ones collaborate with other agents and your existing stack.
Dojo AI is built for this. Like a traditional dojo where martial artists train together to level up, Dojo AI is where agents learn, evolve, and enhance how teams detect, investigate, and respond to threats.
Not only do Dojo AI agents work with each other, but they also work with your tools. With the Sumo Logic MCP Server, you can bring your specialized copilots, proprietary models, and third-party AI systems into the mix, making Dojo AI the hub of your AI ecosystem.
Where do you see yourself in five years?
Agentic AI is evolving fast, so ask how your prospective agent plans to grow. Will it learn responsibly, or will it train unchecked on your data, potentially exposing sensitive information?
Dojo AI agents never train on customer data. They evolve through human-guided refinement, curated learning, and real-world feedback.
Do you provide quality work? How do you take feedback?
Even the best agents will occasionally make mistakes. What matters is that these mistakes happen as little as possible–and that you, the human-in-the-loop, can catch and correct these errors before they become problems.
Dojo AI agents provide citable, explainable answers and include built-in feedback mechanisms that allow humans to steer quality. Over time, this results in smarter decisions, fewer hallucinations, and more dependable outcomes
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