The Rise of AI Agents in Cybersecurity
Over the past year, the term “AI Agent” has become one of the most talked-about concepts in cybersecurity. Post-RSA 2025, nearly every vendor is showcasing some form of agent capability, promising smarter triage, automated response, or AI copilots for analysts. But there’s a critical misunderstanding in the market: agents without a platform are just bots. And bots, no matter how intelligent, don’t transform operations on their own.
What People Think “Agents” Means
Right now, “agent” is being used loosely to describe everything from LLM-based chat tools to scripted automations. In many cases, these are wrappers around foundation models, or static bots tuned to execute a narrow function. They may assist an analyst or automate a task, but they don’t collaborate, adapt, or scale beyond their single job. They operate in silos—lacking memory, shared context, and extensibility.
Why Bricklayer AI Is a Platform
Bricklayer is not a chatbot with a security veneer. It’s a platform built from the ground up to build, deploy, manage, and scale AI agents across the entire SOC. What makes us a platform:
- Agent Building: A persistent system to define, launch, track, and evolve agents over time. Organizations and the specific AI Agent roles they require are highly customized, therefore we must meet the customer where they are today, and then change with them.
- Shared Memory & Context: Shared Memory & Context: Bricklayer agents retain institutional knowledge and share relevant context with one another. The platform’s strength lies in the diversity of its agents—each with specialized expertise—working together as a coordinated, evolving team. Their collective intelligence deepens over time, delivering smarter, more personalized outcomes.
- Integrated Tooling: Bricklayer connects agents directly to the tools, data sources, and response systems they need—so they don’t just observe, they act. Our platform integrates with your existing ecosystem to ensure agents can ingest alerts, enrich context, and take action autonomously within defined guardrails.
- Collaborative Workflows: Our agents don’t operate alone. They’re part of a collaborative system that routes tasks, shares context, and escalates to their human team when needed. They leverage customer-specific knowledge to recommend new processes they can own. They learn and evolve inside every customer.
- Performance Management: Bricklayer continuously tracks the effectiveness, efficiency, and impact of each AI agent and multi-agent procedure. This allows customers to measure success against goals, identify areas for improvement, and prioritize where agents should evolve next. Performance data powers agent tuning, new automation opportunities, and reporting that demonstrates ROI over time.
- Governance & Security: Every agent action is governed by security policies, monitored, and auditable—a requirement for enterprise SOCs.
- Workbench User Interface: A dedicated interface for humans to collaborate with agents, provide feedback, and review decisions.
This is not automation 2.0—it’s an AI-native operating system for the SOC.
Why This Matters for the SOC
Security operations are dynamic. New threats emerge, tools evolve, and procedures shift. A single-purpose agent, no matter how well-designed, cannot keep up. Bricklayer enables SOCs to:
- Support Tier 1 through Tier 3 use cases
- Expand into Threat Intelligence, Incident Response, and Compliance
- Customize agents to align with unique workflows and data sources
- Scale agent deployment without scaling headcount
Because it’s a platform, Bricklayer doesn’t just automate today’s workflows—it adapts to tomorrow’s challenges.
Agents Without a Platform Are Just Automation
The truth is, if you’re buying a standalone agent with no procedures, memory, or governance—you’re just buying automation 2.0. Useful? Sure. But transformative? No. Without a platform, agents are hard to trust, hard to manage, and impossible to scale.
Platforms Win
In every major enterprise shift, platforms win. SIEMs became platforms. SOAR became a platform. And now, as AI enters the heart of the SOC, it’s clear: the winners will be those who build systems, not point solutions.
Bricklayer is not a collection of agents—it’s the platform they operate on. We’re not building automations. We’re building the AI operating system for the modern SOC.
