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Blackpoint Cyber CEO Says New AI SOC Agent Marks Next Evolution Of Managed Cybersecurity: Exclusive<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.crn.com\/news\/security\/2026\/blackpoint-cyber-ceo-says-new-ai-soc-agent-marks-next-evolution-of-managed-cybersecurity-exclusive<\/a><\/p>\n

Publish Date: 2026-07-08 09:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n

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\u2018You\u2019re going to need AI to fight AI. You\u2019re going to need agents fighting agents. That\u2019s where this industry is headed,\u2019 says Blackpoint Cyber CEO Gagan Singh.<\/p>\n

As cybercriminals turn to AI to launch faster, more convincing identity-based attacks, Blackpoint Cyber\u2019s CEO believes the industry\u2019s response has to be deploying AI against AI.
\n That\u2019s the strategy behind the cybersecurity vendor\u2019s new AI Security Operations Center (SOC) agent for identity threat detection and response (ITDR), an autonomous capability that detects and contains credential-based attacks targeting Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace accounts in as little as 21 seconds. The new technology combines AI with human oversight, allowing high-confidence threats, including token theft, impossible travel and business email compromise, to be investigated and contained at machine speed.
\n For CEO Gagan Singh, the launch represents more than another AI feature but rather the next evolution of managed cybersecurity.
\n [Related: Blackpoint Cyber Launches CompassOne Unified Platform: 5 Things To Know]
\n \u201cI tell MSPs all the time to ask their security vendors what they think the world is going to look like six months from now,\u201d Singh (pictured) told CRN in an exclusive interview. \u201cDo you agree with that view of the world? And if you do, what are they doing today to prepare for it? From where we sit, the genie is out of the bottle when it comes to agentic AI and large language models. Those capabilities are becoming available to everyone, including the bad guys.\u201d
\n He said attackers are no longer limited by traditional phishing campaigns as AI now allows them to personalize every attack, sift through millions of targets automatically and launch sophisticated social engineering campaigns.
\n \u201cYou\u2019re going to need AI to fight AI,\u201d he said. \u201cYou\u2019re going to need agents fighting agents. That\u2019s where this industry is headed.\u201d
\n The AI SOC agent was trained using years of SOC analyst decisions, forensic evidence from hundreds of security investigations and telemetry collected from more than one million protected endpoints across the company\u2019s MSP customer base. Before allowing the system to take autonomous action, the company spent months validating every recommendation against human analysts.
\n \u201cWe intentionally had the AI stop at the recommendation stage for a long time,\u201d he said. \u201cIt would investigate an incident, reason through it, reach a conclusion and then our SOC analysts would ask, \u2018Is this exactly what I would have done?\u2019 That process repeated over and over again until we had enough confidence that the AI wasn\u2019t skipping steps. It follows our standard operating procedures every single time. It doesn\u2019t get tired. It doesn\u2019t overlook something because it\u2019s the end of a long shift.\u201d
\n For MSPs, the biggest benefit isn\u2019t simply automation, it\u2019s reducing the time attackers have to move through customer environments.
\n \u201cThe only KPI that ultimately mattered to me was time to containment,\u201d Singh said. \u201cHow quickly can we identify that a bad actor has entered an environment and stop them? That\u2019s what this is about. If we can preserve the quality of our SOC while acting an order of magnitude faster than we could before, that\u2019s a win for every partner we support.\u201d
\n Joe Ussia, CEO of Blackpoint Toronto-based Blackpoint Cyber partner Infinite IT Solution, said it\u2019s encouraging to see vendors embracing the technology and pushing the industry forward.\u201cI\u2019m really glad that market-leading MDRs, like Blackpoint, are getting ahead of the ITDR technology,\u201d Ussia told CRN. \u201cThey\u2019re exactly the right type of company to be doing this. Every EDR platform should have this built in technically, and if they\u2019re not doing it, they\u2019re going to get left behind. Companies like Blackpoint are going to take market share because this is something the entire channel needs, and it\u2019s something every company is going to expect.\u201dHe added that the shift extends beyond any single vendor, arguing that AI-powered detection and response should become a standard capability across the security ecosystem, \u201cHopefully every EDR platform and every SOC will have this built in, because that\u2019s where the industry is headed.\u201d
\n Looking ahead, he expects autonomous cybersecurity capabilities to evolve quickly as AI-generated attacks become more sophisticated.
\n \u201cWe\u2019re not satisfied with 21 seconds,\u201d he said. \u201cUltimately, we want to get to the point where we stop an attack at the instant it happens. But it\u2019s not just about speed. The attacks are going to become more complex. The volume is going to increase. Human analysts are still incredibly important because their judgment is what teaches these systems how to make good decisions. Our goal is to have AI and our elite SOC analysts working together so partners get both machine-speed response and human expertise.\u201d<\/p>\n

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