4. How can a buyer tell whether an AI SOC reduces risk?

Suggested expert: Matt Gregson. Why it matters: time saved and security outcomes can move independently.

Context: EP278 explicitly asks about time saved versus risk reduced.

Good-answer framing — editorial: define the task and baseline, test data, false-negative review and human decision boundaries. Compare completed, validated work with work merely accelerated. Explain how exceptions and failed automation are observed, and when the buyer should disable an automated action.

Follow-up: “What would count as evidence against the system's effectiveness during a pilot?”