Optiv Agentic Security Operations

NOMINATION HIGHLIGHTS

As AI accelerates the speed and sophistication of cyberattacks, traditional Managed Security Service models are struggling to keep pace. To bridge this gap, in August 2026, Optiv announced Optiv Agentic Security Operations (formerly Optiv MDR), a breakthrough managed security operations model that unites disparate security tooling, detection and response, agentic AI, and Optiv practitioner expertise to help organizations manage cyber risk.

Beyond simply responding to alerts, Optiv Agentic Security Operations leverages agentic AI to review alerts and proactively bring forward risk across the environment. Optiv experts conduct follow-on investigations and surface actionable insights across security environments. Optiv practitioners remain central to the process, providing expert validation and response guidance while continuously evaluating and remediating surfaced risks.

This allows Optiv to deliver an end-to-end service that does more than detection and response, enabling a complete, proactive response to security threats before a threat is detected — all with the trusted power of Google Security Operations and Wiz.

Utilizing the power of Google Security Operations and Google Threat Intelligence to detect, investigate, and respond to threats at Google speed and scale, while leveraging the expertise of Wiz, Optiv Agentic Security Operations evolves Optiv’s managed security services into a modern, AI-powered security operations model that can continuously evaluate, prioritize, and remediate risk before it can be exploited.

Central to the model is the deep integration with Wiz. Wiz Cloud continuously identifies and prioritizes cloud exposures, misconfigurations, and attack paths. Wiz Code assesses critical risks across code and CI/CD, and Wiz Defend delivers real-time cloud detection and response. Together, they bring exposure and runtime context into a single console and directly into Optiv’s agentic workflows, giving Optiv practitioners and AI agents a unified view of assets, exposure, and business impact. This enables Optiv to remediate risks across the full threat lifecycle.

Optiv Agentic Security Operations enable a more connected and intelligent security operations program that reduces manual effort, improves visibility across disparate security tools, and enables organizations to respond to threats with greater speed and confidence.

Clients can:
• Continuously identify, prioritize, and remediate cloud exposures with Wiz Cloud before attackers can exploit them
• Reduce manual SOC workloads with AI-assisted triage and automation
• Improve detection quality with connected telemetry and tuned content
• Accelerate investigations with alerts enriched by unified exposure, identity, and threat context from Wiz Cloud and Wiz Defend
• Enable faster, coordinated response and remediation across security technologies
• Strengthen SOC maturity through ongoing practitioner-led optimization