Sophos, a leading cybersecurity company, deployed OpenAI's Daybreak platform to automate threat investigation workflows. The integration reduced the average time required to investigate security threats from days to hours, with AI handling 52% of managed detection and response (MDR) cases while maintaining human oversight. The deployment demonstrates how AI can absorb high-volume, repetitive security analysis work while security teams focus on complex, novel threats.

What This Means for Your Business

Security-focused businesses can use this as a benchmark: AI-assisted threat detection and investigation can dramatically improve response times, freeing experienced analysts for high-value work. If you operate an SOC or security team, evaluate whether AI-assisted investigation tools can reduce mean time to detect (MTTD) and mean time to respond (MTTR)—even a 10-15% improvement impacts both security posture and staffing costs.