Agentic AI in the SOC: Early Innovations and Market Signals from RSAC 2025

This IDC Market Perspective provides highlights and takeaways from the 2025 RSA Conference (RSAC), held in San Francisco from April 29 through May 1, under the theme Many Voices. One Community. While GenAI remained one of the dominant themes, agentic AI emerged in select vendor announcements - framed as the next evolution of AI in the SOC, with early capabilities targeting task-specific autonomy and marking a shift from assistive AI tools toward software agents capable of initiating, reasoning through, and executing security tasks. This document analyzes the state of agentic AI in cybersecurity through the lens of RSAC 2025, identifying five core market developments and offering guidance for technology suppliers exploring agentic capabilities in security operations."The 2025 RSA Conference opened the door for agentic AI to move from concept to capability - highlighting use cases that actually improve the lives of security professionals." - Monika Soltysik, senior research analyst, Security and Trust at IDC