In today’s fast-paced threat landscape, security operations centers (SOCs) are under relentless pressure. Alert volumes are exploding, dwell times are rising, and skilled analysts are increasingly stretched thin.
Many security vendors are racing to fill the security gaps that have emerged, including Torq, which just announced Torq AMP, its new Alliance and Momentum Partner (AMP) program. The program brings together Google Cloud, Wiz, Zscaler, Anvilogic, Armis, Astrix Security, Cyera, Intezer, NVIDIA, Panther, Reco, Silverfort, Sweet Security, and Veeam, to power a new era of autonomous SecOps driven by agentic AI.
Torq AMP is a departure from legacy partner models. The company says it rejects elitist tiers and gatekeeping in favor of an open, momentum-based structure that welcomes companies of all sizes, from global hyperscalers to early-stage startups. It says all will have equal access to Torq’s platform, demo environments, marketing activation, and co-selling initiatives, regardless of size or market share. At its core, AMP harnesses agentic AI – AI capable not just of executing instructions, but of initiating context-driven decisions – setting the foundation for Torq’s vision of an Autonomous SOC.
This announcement underscores a broader industry shift – a transition from traditional automation to agentic AI. While traditional SOAR platforms orchestrate predefined workflows, agentic AI takes it further by initiating actions autonomously, dynamically adapting to evolving threats, and orchestrating across tools with minimal human intervention.
Torq’s partnerships with Wiz and Zscaler, for instance, exemplify how AI can proactively drive incident response. Wiz, via its Integration Network (WIN), feeds deep cloud threat telemetry into Torq’s AI-driven SOC platform, enabling swift triage, threat hunting, and cross-platform investigation. Zscaler, through integration with Torq’s Socrates agent, empowers real-time response to ZIA “Patient?0” alerts, automatically investigating file hashes, isolating endpoints, and applying global blacklists without manual escalation. These integrations are two examples of how agentic AI is evolving from tools that simply respond to instructions into systems that anticipate, decide, and act at machine speed.
Furthermore, by bringing together companies this in its program, Torq seeks to foster joint solution development, marketing, and co-selling in a way that accelerates innovation across the board. Its momentum-based model rewards progress over size or status, ensuring that any partner contributing meaningful advancements receives visibility and resources. This approach supports an industry-wide trajectory toward AI-first, data-driven security ecosystems where innovation is democratized rather than siloed.
What does this mean for SecOps? For starters, with AI capable of triaging alerts, investigating incidents, correlating intelligence, and executing response actions – like isolating endpoints or revoking access – incident response becomes faster, more consistent, and less error-prone. For SOC teams, this means dramatically reduced mean time to response (MTTR) and a shift away from repetitive, manual tasks.
Torq’s platform also layers its agentic AI SOC analyst, known as Socrates, atop existing security stacks, enabling event-driven hyperautomation. Whether responding to phishing alerts or processing access requests, workflows are fully auditable, no-code enabled, and scale seamlessly across a variety of tools and environments. This ecosystem-driven flexibility allows organizations to build highly customized, AI-powered SecOps frameworks that evolve alongside their infrastructures and threat landscapes.
By anchoring its alliance program in agentic AI, autonomous decision-making, and partner-driven innovation, Torq is looking to redefine the SecOps playbook. As integrations with Wiz, Zscaler, and other partners showcase, the future of SOC operations is autonomous, adaptive, and co-created through a collaborative ecosystem. For security leaders at global enterprises, embracing agentic AI through initiatives like Torq AMP means accelerating threat response, scaling operations without expanding headcount, and reclaiming control in a world where threats evolve constantly.
If you ask Torq, the autonomous SOC is no longer aspirational – it’s here, and it’s powered by agentic AI, collaboration, and innovative partnerships like those in Torq AMP.
Learn more about how agentic AI is improving business processes and operations across industries at AI Agent Event, taking place September 29-30 in Herndon, Virginia, in the Washington, D.C. metro area. The conference program includes speakers from leading companies like Lockheed Martin, AWX, Cisco, and others, who will address key themes and offer success strategies for AI agent adoption.
Edited by
Erik Linask
