# News, Perspectives, and Announcements

The latest from Crogl — product milestones, company news, press coverage, and perspectives on the future of AI in security operations.

## Research
**2026 State of SecOps Report**  
We surveyed 649 security practitioners to find out what’s actually happening inside the SOC in 2026. The numbers are stark: 4,330 alerts a day, only 37% investigated. Learn what high-performing teams are doing differently — and why agentic threats are changing the calculus entirely.

[Read More →](https://www.crogl.com/newsroom/state-of-secops-ai)

## Blog
**Do Your Agents Know Your Secrets?**  
Your AI SOC agent just disabled a compromised account, queried your SIEM, and rotated an API key. But where did it get the credentials to do that? Every useful agent becomes a secrets-handling system — and that changes everything about how you should architect it.

[Read More →](https://www.crogl.com/newsroom/do-your-agents-know-your-secrets)

**Why Can’t I Just Vibe Code My Own Harness?**  
Everyone has access to the same frontier models. The differentiation is in the harness — the context management, the knowledge graph, the orchestration logic. A recent Stanford/MIT study measured that gap at 6x. In security, that gap is the difference between catching the intrusion and writing the breach report.

[Read More →](https://www.crogl.com/newsroom/why-cant-i-just-vibe-code-my-own-harness)

## Coverage
**AI Agents vs. AI Agents: The Future of Security — Monzy Merza on Secure and Simple**  
Advisera’s Secure and Simple podcast hosts Crogl co-founder and CEO Monzy Merza for a conversation on the agent-versus-agent future of cybersecurity — where attackers deploy AI to run fast, low-cost campaigns and defenders need AI that can keep up.

[Read More →](https://www.crogl.com/newsroom/agent-vs-agent-secure-and-simple-podcast)

**AI-Enabled SOC Operations: From Alert Overload to Autonomous Investigation**  
At RSAC Conference 2026, Sean Martin and Marco Ciappelli of ITSPmagazine sat down on-site with Monzy Merza to discuss what it actually looks like when AI stops being a marketing concept and starts running investigations inside real enterprise SOCs.

[Read More →](https://www.crogl.com/newsroom/ai-enabled-soc-rsac-2026)

**Crogl Report Finds Enterprises Facing 16 Cyber Attacks a Year Amid Alert Overload**  
CX Today covers Crogl’s 2026 State of SecOps research, reporting that enterprises average 16 cyber attacks annually while contending with over 4,000 daily security alerts — and what alert overload means for modern security operations.

[Read on CX Today →](https://www.cxtoday.com/security-privacy-compliance/crogl-report-finds-enterprises-facing-16-cyber-attacks-a-year-amid-alert-overload/)

**AI Agents Are Not Enough**  
AI agents are powerful — but deploying them everywhere trades one bottleneck for another. The real breakthrough isn’t agentic AI. It’s AI that manages AI.

[Read More →](https://www.crogl.com/newsroom/why-just-add-ai-agents-doesnt-work)

**Building Community Around the AI SOC Revolution**  
Why we built the AI SOC Summit — and why practitioner-led community matters more than ever as AI transforms security operations.

[Read More →](https://www.crogl.com/newsroom/building-community-ai-soc-revolution)

**Crogl Named “Awardable” on DoD CDAO Tradewinds Solutions Marketplace**  
Crogl has been designated “Awardable” on the Department of Defense CDAO Tradewinds Solutions Marketplace — enabling DoD organizations to engage Crogl directly through streamlined procurement for AI and data solutions.

[Read on PR Newswire →](https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/crogl-named-awardable-on-dod-cdao-tradewinds-solutions-marketplace-302689535.html)

**Meet Crogl: The AI ‘Iron Man Suit’ Built for Security Analysts**  
TechCrunch covers Crogl’s launch — an autonomous AI platform designed as an ‘Iron Man suit’ for security analysts.

[Read More →](https://www.crogl.com/newsroom/meet-crogl-the-ai-iron-man-suit-built-for-security-analysts)

## Company Facts
### At a Glance
- **2023**  
Founded in Albuquerque, NM  
- **$30M**  
Total funding raised  
- **1**  
US Patent granted  
- **3**  
Deployment modes (on-prem, private cloud, air-gapped)

### Leadership
- Monzy Merza, CEO  
- Ryan Burke, VP of Worldwide Sales  
- Lipyeow Lim, Head of AI  
- Brad Lovering, Advisor

### Federal Status
“Awardable” on DoD CDAO Tradewinds Solutions Marketplace (Feb 2026)

## Media & Press
### Media Inquiries & Press Resources
For press inquiries, interview requests, or logo and brand assets, reach out to the Crogl communications team.