For AI to succeed in the SOC, CISOs need to remove legacy walls now

What separates the SOCs getting results from their AI strategies from those that don't begins with CISOs who take ownership of AI initiatives and anticipate roadblocks early, systematically demolishing legacy walls that get in the way.The disconnect between AI's promise and delivery dominated discussions at Forrester's 2025 Security & Risk Summit last week. "We have a chaos agent of our own today," said Allie Mellen, a principal analyst, during her keynote. "And that chaos agent is — you guessed it — generative AI." Her keynote focused on the fact that many organizations and their cybersecurity teams are trapped behind self-imposed barriers that limit their potential.Closing the gap between agentic AI winners and losers The gap between AI winners and losers in cybersecurity isn't about tec