External, internal, and operational pressures to deploy AI to unlock its promise of increased speed and efficiency has left enterprise cybersecurity professionals in a tough spot — finding they need to enable innovation, while trying to foresee the risks it might introduce. Two enterprise cybersecurity leaders decided to take on the AI challenge and share at this year’s RSAC 2026 Conference what they determined it can do well, and what it isn’t ready to take on. Both of their enterprise environments carry big risk when it comes to cybersecurity attacks. One cybersecurity leader, Ankit Gupta, oversees a Fortune 500 food manufacturing company, and the other, Shilpi Mittal, is charged with protecting a financial company. Both decided to run a six-month trial period to find out how AI could work for them in their security operations centers (SOCs).

Full report : Two cybersecurity leaders tested out AI in their respective SOCs for six months — and here’s what they learned.