Governance Ready Agentic SOC Starts with Evidence

An auditor asks why a host was isolated at 2 a.m. on a Tuesday last March. The action was correct. The record behind it sits in four tools under three schemas with two retention windows, one of which has already rolled over. Answering takes a week of forensics and still leaves a gap.
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Agentic evaluations usually test capability: what the agent can investigate, contain, and close. The question that decides whether you can deploy it arrives later, from someone who wasn't in the room. This paper works that question backward, from the audit to the data model, and sets out what has to be true at ingestion for a decision to be defensible eleven months after it was made.
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It also draws the line between autonomy that is generally available today and autonomy that belongs on a roadmap, because the two get discussed as though they were the same thing.
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WHAT'S INSIDE
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• The six elements every agentic decision has to carry to be reconstructable end to end, and what each one proves to an auditor
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• A  governance scorecard of seven measures a CISO can report on at any time, including decision reconstruction time and evidence completeness rate
• Why a non-proprietary schema such as OCSF matters when the evidence has to hold up outside the tool that produced it
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• Five conditions to require before approving independent agent action

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