When Torq decided the industry needed to know SOAR was finished, they buried a monument to it outside a major security conference. It tells you most of what you need to know about how they operate.

In this episode, Amir Nooriala sits down with Ofer Smadari, CEO and co-founder of Torq, for an honest conversation about building security companies and dismantling the categories that came before.

Torq itself started as something else entirely. Launched as StackPulse around reliability engineering, the founders spotted that security teams were the real users and rebuilt the company around them.

Then the part every security leader will want to hear. Ofer argues the traditional SOC is broken, ground down by alert fatigue and analysts trapped in repetitive work. His answer is the AI SOC, built on autonomous agents that learn, reason and handle investigations at scale, which he is careful to distinguish from the rule-based automation that came before.

He closes on what it takes to scale. Never compromise on your leadership team, and lead with transparency and courage when everything is moving quickly.