Teaching a Machine to Think Like an Incident Researcher
Varonis, Friday, September 18th, 2026
Varonis describes how it built AI that reproduces an incident researcher's investigative reasoning on security alerts.
Varonis explains how its team encoded the reasoning process of experienced incident researchers into an AI system for alert investigation.
The post walks through how analysts actually triage, form hypotheses, and gather corroborating evidence, then how that workflow was modeled. It discusses the guardrails needed so the system produces defensible conclusions rather than plausible narratives.
The goal described is cutting investigation time while preserving analyst-grade rigor.