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There’s a simple way to know when technology has been truly transformative. It’s when your work would fall apart if you took it away. Think about electricity, the internet, personal computers — we’re pathetically helpless when they break, and we’d struggle to redesign work without them. Very few teams have reached this point with AI. Software engineers are the exception — AI has radically changed how they build and ship software.

John White is the Field CISO for EMEA at Torq. A respected security executive with more than 20 years of leadership experience, John previously served as CISO at Virgin Atlantic, where he led a multi-year transformation deploying the Torq AI SOC Platform to modernize cyber operations. Prior to Virgin Atlantic, he built and transformed security functions for global organizations, including ASOS, Liberty Global, AEG Europe, and KPMG.

Noam Cohen is Head of Artificial Intelligence at Torq, where he leads the AI research and engineering work that powers the platform’s agentic SOC capabilities. Noam work at Torq spans the core AI systems behind autonomous threat investigation, SOC memory, confidence-based decision thresholds, and the guardrails that make agentic AI trustworthy enough to act in production security environments.

John White is the Field CISO for EMEA at Torq. A respected security executive with more than 20 years of leadership experience, John previously served as CISO at Virgin Atlantic, where he led a multi-year transformation deploying the Torq AI SOC Platform to modernize cyber operations. Prior to Virgin Atlantic, he built and transformed security functions for global organizations, including ASOS, Liberty Global, AEG Europe, and KPMG. You’ve signed the AI SOC contract.

Amir Kessler is Director of Product Management at Torq, where he leads the Context Engine and Data Fabric, the layer that gives the AI SOC Platform the organizational context it needs to investigate and act. He joined Torq with its acquisition of Jit, where he was VP of Product. Amir has spent more than 15 years in cyber, starting in IDF intelligence and going on to lead product teams at several security companies. Before Jit became part of Torq, we built our product on one bet.

A theme throughout our September updates is data. Build with data, use data to inform AI-assisted case work, and make data easier to read and share.