The SentinelOne co-founder and CEO used his OneCon keynote to discuss what he calls ‘the world’s first fully agentic AI SOC’ — and why cybersecurity has become nothing short of a ‘survival imperative.’
The continued intensification of cyber threat activity has made cybersecurity nothing short of a “survival imperative” for humanity — and there’s now no question that the industry must respond with products that are increasingly autonomous, SentinelOne Co-founder and CEO Tomer Weingarten said Wednesday.
The stakes around cyber defense have risen to the point that it’s the security of IT systems is actually “synonymous with the security of life itself,” Weingarten said during his keynote at SentinelOne’s OneCon 2025 conference in Las Vegas. “I’m not exaggerating.”
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At the same time, “cybersecurity today is entirely reactive. That is a huge problem,” he told an audience of customers and partners. “What we need [is to] move from this reactive mode of today and into an autonomous mode in the future.”
Weingarten made the remarks as SentinelOne unveiled an array of new products Wednesday including offerings for agentic security operations and AI-powered threat detection. For instance, the newly announced integration of technology from SentinelOne’s recent acquisition of Observo AI aims to optimize data pipelines for autonomous threat detection and response, the company said.
With the latest product expansion from SentinelOne, the vendor is seeking to provide everything that partners and customers need to shift a more-autonomous approach in their SOC (Security Operations Center) to counter accelerating threats, according to Weingarten.
Ultimately, through the combination of AI-powered capabilities now offered by SentinelOne, “this is the world’s first fully agentic AI SOC,” Weingarten said during the keynote. “That is the future that we envision for cybersecurity.”
What follows are Weingarten’s five boldest statements at SentinelOne OneCon 2025.
Security Is A ‘Survival Imperative’
“Cybersecurity has become the single most important factor in the survival of humankind. It’s no joke. It’s no longer a technical discipline. It’s a survival imperative. Humanity’s dependence on intelligence and on infrastructure, on systems and on data, makes the protection of these systems fundamental to civilization itself. The digital, biological, geopolitical — all of these worlds are merging together, making the security of intelligence and systems synonymous with the security of life itself. I’m not exaggerating. This is the meaning of cybersecurity.”
Reactive Security Is A ‘Huge Problem’
“Security must be intelligent. It must be autonomous. It should be anticipatory. It cannot be reactive. All of cybersecurity today is entirely reactive. That is a huge problem. It also has to be fully auditable, steerable and transparent — which, again, is not the case today. … We need an entire change of approach, an evolution of approach. And it’s really about the architecture of the future and what we need to build, right now — autonomous architectures, streaming architectures. [We must move] from reacting to preventing, from this concept of detection and response to [security that is] proactive and predictive. … There’s no one big bang where security gets solved. It’s all going to be gradual. It’s what we need to make sure that we move from this reactive mode of today and into an autonomous mode in the future.”
‘Fully Agentic AI SOC’
“[We’re launching] agentic auto investigations, Singularity Hyperautomation, automatic actions, custom detection rules and the Purple AI MCP server — which is obviously an insane bridge to everything you want to build. This is the world’s first fully agentic AI SOC. You have all the components, all the ingredients, to basically unleash the power of AI to make your SOC infinitely faster and more productive. And you don’t need to code it, you don’t need to configure it, you don’t need to build it. You don’t need to invent it. You don’t need to grapple with it. It’s there, turnkey — click and it happens. That is the future that we envision for cybersecurity.”
‘Step-Function Change’ In Data Speeds
“[SentinelOne is providing] high-frequency, ultra-scalable data lakes. What took hours with legacy systems processing data is now taking seconds in high-frequency data lakes, like the Singularity Data Lake. That’s a step-function change in what you can now do, in what you can now create with these types of technologies. And it’s very, very meaningful. Because when data lives within the platform, it really means that artificial security intelligence like Purple can now act immediately, instantly and across all that data, all these entities and all the time. When you can query up to seven years of history of data, and you put all that context into AI, you get a very, very different outcome than just the bolt-on AI [that] you’re seeing from a lot of others in our space.”
‘Invisible Yet Omnipresent’
“The mission of cybersecurity is freedom. It’s freedom to innovate. It’s freedom to build. It’s freedom to thrive. Cybersecurity should protect human potential, not limit it. And the measure of success will be a world where humans and machines collaborate safely. That’s what we all want — creatively, ethically. The mission of cybersecurity is not control. It’s freedom to ensure that technology remains humanity’s greatest ally, and that’s our commitment. That’s what we’re here to do. … The world needs security that is invisible yet omnipresent.”
