Gary Alterson on agentic SOCs, AI spend control, and building Sovereign AI

Thomas chats with Gary Alterson on the Cybersecurity Recruiter Podcast, covering Gary’s 30-year security career and why AI makes the current era especially impactful.

Gary describes Armor’s AI-embracing approach, including an agentic SOC that automates roughly 80-90% of triage, while outlining customer challenges with AI adoption: data privacy/security, runaway token spend, and inconsistent output quality.

He explains Armor’s Sovereign AI platform (sovai.com), which centralizes API keys, routes tasks across different models (including private models that avoid sending customer data to public models), enforces policies and budgets, improves prompts, provides ...