2026 WINNER · CYBERSECURITY STARS AWARDS
AirMDR · Agentic AI SOC Platform
Most Innovative Artificial Intelligence Security Platform
Overview
AirMDR is an AI-native Managed Detection and Response (MDR) company transforming security operations through agentic AI-powered threat investigations and expert human oversight. Founded by cybersecurity leaders Kumar Saurabh and Anthony Morris, AirMDR was created to help organizations overcome the growing operational challenges facing lean SOC teams, including alert fatigue, analyst shortages, and the increasing complexity of threat detection and response.
Purpose-built with AI at its core, AirMDR combines autonomous investigation capabilities with human governance to deliver scalable, transparent, and accountable security operations. Its platform helps organizations improve investigation speed, reduce manual workloads, and increase operational efficiency while maintaining visibility and trust in security decision-making.
Key Capabilities
AirMDR delivers AI-native security operations designed to help organizations scale threat investigations and improve security outcomes through agentic AI and human oversight.
Key capabilities and features include:
- Agentic investigations that autonomously triage, enrich, correlate, and investigate security alerts to accelerate response times and reduce manual analyst effort.
- AI-native architecture purpose-built for modern SOC operations, rather than layering automation onto legacy MDR workflows.
- Human-in-the-loop governance that combines AI scalability with expert oversight to improve trust, accountability, and operational transparency.
- Explainable AI-driven investigations with documented reasoning, audit-ready workflows, and transparent decision-making from alert to resolution.
- Continuous 24/7 threat detection and investigation capabilities that help organizations scale security operations without proportionally increasing headcount.
- Seamless integration with existing security stacks, enabling organizations to adopt AI-driven security operations without disruptive infrastructure changes.
- AI-driven operational efficiency that enables security analysts to focus on higher-priority threats, strategic initiatives, and incident response activities.
How we are different
AirMDR differentiates on investigation quality, transparency, and operating model. It delivers AI-driven investigations that are faster, clearer, and easier to trust – with agentic AI doing the investigation work, humans accountable for the outcome, and no new SOC platform for lean teams to operate.
Key differentiators include:
- Measurably better investigation quality: AirMDR makes MDR quality easier to inspect and trust, with investigations that show the evidence, reasoning, disposition, and recommended next action.
- Transparent, evidence-backed cases: Every investigation produces a clear case that shows what was checked, what was found, why the conclusion is credible, and what should happen next.
- Built around agentic AI investigation workflows from the start: AirMDR is not legacy MDR with AI features bolted on. Agentic AI triages alerts, gathers evidence, reasons through the investigation, and generates cases as part of the core service model.
- Human oversight and accountability: AI scales the investigation work, while human experts review, tune, oversee, and remain accountable for the service and outcomes.
- Faster, more scalable MDR operations: AirMDR improves operational outcomes across investigation speed, consistency, coverage, and analyst efficiency – 95% of alerts are investigated and cases generated in under 5 minutes.
- Advanced AI-driven investigations without another platform to operate: AirMDR gives lean security teams the benefit of AI-driven security operations without requiring them to build a SOC, staff a new workflow, or operate an AI SOC platform themselves.
- Broad security stack coverage: AirMDR can ingest from 200+ tools and build new integrations quickly, giving investigations more context than MDR models tied mainly to one endpoint or security stack.
- AirMDR is also the creator of SOC Grader, an open-source initiative advancing measurable standards and benchmarking for SOC investigation quality.
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