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SuperSOC is the monthly podcast where Qevlar AI's CEO Ahmed Achchak interviews top cybersecurity experts to explore the future of the SOC.
From real-world AI applications to rethinking SecOps workflows, each episode delivers bold insights and practical strategies for modern security teams.
Recent guests include Google’s Anton Chuvakin and cybersecurity automation expert Filip Stojkovski.
Want to know more about Qevlar AI and how it can help you automate alert investigation? Head to www.qevlar.com
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Most SOCs say they’re “not ready for AI.” Others rush in, hoping AI will magically fix years of neglected fundamentals. Both approaches aren’t ideal. In this episode, Ahmed Achchak (CEO & Co-founder, Qevlar AI) sits down with Rafal Kitab, Director of SecOps & Incident Response at ConnectWise, to talk about when exactly AI should be added in the SOC. Rafal argues that AI doesn’t fix broken SOCs. It amplifies whatever you already are. If your processes are solid, AI can extend your capa...
Is your SOC ready for the new era of GenAI attacks? In this episode, Ahmed Achchak sits down with Jai Minton, Senior Manager of Hunt & Response at Huntress, to break down how attackers consistently bypass even “mature” SOCs by abusing legitimate tools, blending into normal behavior, and operating in places defenders rarely monitor closely. This conversation is for SOC leaders who want to understand: → Which intrusion patterns slip past EDR and SIEM without triggering alerts → Where teleme...
Most enterprises talk about unifying IT, OT and cloud security, but very few actually pull it off. In this episode, Ahmed has invited Daniel Kästle, former Head of Cyber Defense at Mercedes-Benz, to break down what it really takes to move from three isolated security worlds to a risk-driven cyber defense capability. You’ll discover: → Why IT, OT and cloud security remain stubbornly siloed, and why the real blockers have nothing to do with tools. →A practical blueprint for building interoperab...
How do you guarantee the same investigative depth and accuracy when you’re running security operations for thousands of customers and processing billions of alerts per day? In this episode, Beatrice Francon, Director of MDR Services at Atos, joins Ahmed Achchak (CEO and co-founder of Qevlar AI) to unpack how Atos scales investigative quality across diverse client environments — from critical infrastructure to finance and healthcare — without losing the human context that defines great securit...
Tier 1, Tier 2, Tier 3 — the hierarchy every SOC grew up with. But as AI takes over triage and investigation, does that model still make sense? In this episode, Ahmed Achchak (CEO and co-founder of Qevlar AI) talks with Rob van Os, Strategic SOC Advisor and creator of the SOC-CMM framework — one of the most widely adopted models for assessing and improving SOC maturity worldwide. Together, they unpack whether modern AI-driven operations make the tiered model obsolete, how skills-based SOCs ar...
In this episode, Ahmed Achchak (CEO & co-founder of Qevlar AI) invited Shane Shook, Venture Partner at Forgepoint Capital and longtime advisor to top security startups, to explore why false negatives (not false positives) are still the SOC’s most dangerous blind spot. Shane shares insights from 30+ years in incident response and threat detection on where organizations miss early signals, why overtuning rules makes things worse, and how AI can finally shift detection left without overwhe...
In this episode, Ahmed Achchak (CEO & co-founder of Qevlar AI) sits down with Erik Bloch, VP of Security at illumio and former SOC leader at Salesforce and Atlassian, to explore how AI is blurring the traditional divide between MSSP and enterprise SOCs. Erik breaks down why MSSPs operate like standardized, metric-driven service products, while enterprise SOCs remain bespoke, and how autonomous AI might flip the script. You’ll discover: → Why AI fits naturally into MSSP workflows but strug...
AI promises to transform security operations but how much of that is actually happening today? In this episode, Ahmed Achchak (CEO of Qevlar AI) talks with Dr. Anton Chuvakin, Security Advisor at Office of the CISO at Google Cloud, to explore the real, measurable ways AI can improve your SOC and the hard limits many organizations overlook. You’ll discover: Where AI reliably adds value in security operations today and where it doesn’t.Why poor data, not weak models, is the biggest blocker to A...
Most “AI-powered” security tools are just brittle automation wearing a fancy badge. In this episode, Qevlar AI CEO Ahmed Achchak sits down with cybersecurity automation expert Filip Stojkovski to ask the hard questions: Why are L1/L2 workflows still broken? What separates true AI agents from glorified SOAR playbooks? And how can you actually measure whether AI is making smart decisions or just moving faster? They break down the limits of traditional automation, expose “AI SOC” vendor red flag...
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