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Torq took home the top prize at Check Point’s 2025 Innovation Sandbox Competition during their annual CPX conference in Las Vegas. Chris Coburn, Torq’s Sr. Director of Tech Alliances, faced off against 13 other companies to pitch Torq’s AI-native autonomous SOC to a panel of judges and voting audience.
As the Sandbox Innovation winner, Chris earned the opportunity to deliver a main-stage keynote to thousands of security professionals and leaders, sharing how Torq’s game-changing agentic AI and Hyperautomation capabilities are saving SOC analysts from burn out while strengthening overall security posture.
The Pitch: AI or Die — Saving the SOC with Agentic AI and Hyperautomation
“It’s time to adopt AI or die. Everybody’s saying it — AI’s here now and it’s going to be a massive part of cybersecurity going forward. Torq is using AI to help solve everything that is killing our SOC teams every day.”
– Chris Coburn, Sr. Director of Tech Alliances, Torq
SOCs are in crisis. Security teams are getting buried by alerts and they spend way too much of their time trying to make different tools communicate with each other and trying to get different data formats to make sense with each other. Even when analysts find a true positive alert, the investigation, communication, and remediation steps can be disjointed and painful. This overwhelm causes alerts to be missed, leaving organizations vulnerable to attacks and breaches.
To combat these SOC killers, Torq is offloading all of the mundane, highly repetitive tasks to Hyperautomation and AI — turning down the volume so human analysts can focus in on critical threats, with enriched insights to accelerate their decision-making.
Torq’s AI-native autonomous SOC is made up of three components:
- A foundation of enterprise security-grade architecture built completely on zero trust, cloud-native, extensible software.
- A Hyperautomation engine which makes building automations as easy and powerful as possible, integrated across your entire security stack.
- AI agents that act as accelerators for SOC operations. These include an AI Workflow Builder that rapidly generates custom automation workflows using natural language prompts, AI Case Summaries that deliver concise, structured summaries so your team can get up to speed faster, and Socrates, Torq’s agentic AI SOC Analyst that can autonomously triage, investigate, and remediate 95% of Tier-1 cases.
AI-driven Hyperautomation changes the picture for SOCs today. With Torq, 95% of Tier-1 incidents can be autoremediated, allowing human security analysts to focus on the strategic and engaging work that they actually care about.
This is the promise of the autonomous SOC — and Torq is making it happen.
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Check Point Speeds Up Their SOC with Torq HyperSOC™
“With Torq HyperSOC, we can react automatically to problems before they become security incidents.”
– Jonathan Fischbein, CISO at Check Point
Check Point was facing a challenge that many security teams can relate to: too many alerts and too few analysts. When Check Point’s CISO Jonathan Fischbein went on the hunt for a security automation solution, feedback from fellow CISOs and CIOs led him to bypass legacy SOAR products in favor of Torq’s HyperSOC solution.
Key ‘wow factors’ for Check Point included:
- Easy-to-use UI centered around the SOC analyst experience to make their jobs easier
- Days-fast deployment of dozens of AI-driven playbooks, automating responses to some of the organization’s most repetitive security alerts
- Integrations that “fit like a glove” with Check Point’s existing security stack
Today, Torq’s AI-driven HyperSOC investigates, triages and remediates many of Check Point’s internal security alerts without any human intervention. If an alert meets certain parameters based on security policies, the platform autonomously takes action, such as initiating an MFA challenge or locking out a suspicious user. High-priority incidents are routed for human intervention, with intelligent case insights and recommendations that help analysts make better decisions, faster.
The end result? Dramatic efficiency gains and reduced alert fatigue.
