From Network Evidence to Autonomous Defense: Corelight at RSAC Conference 2026 | A Brand Spotlight at RSAC Conference 2026 with Vijit Nair, VP of Product Management at Corelight

Vijit Nair, VP of Product Management at Corelight, joins Sean Martin on the floor of RSAC Conference 2026 for a conversation about what it takes to move security operations from AI-assisted to AI-autonomous. Corelight is the fastest-growing company in the network detection and response (NDR) space, and Nair has spent six years helping build the platform from early network monitoring to its current position as a Gartner Magic Quadrant Leader. The company's open NDR platform transforms raw network traffic into high-fidelity, unopinionated evidence -- and that evidence is now powering the next leap: agentic triage.

Corelight's newly launched Agentic Triage product moves beyond the "level one" AI assistant model -- where a system answers questions but takes no action -- to a "level two" agent that actually investigates and triages alerts. It identifies the riskiest entities in an environment, collects all associated context and data, runs a full investigation cycle, and delivers a verdict with full evidence attached. Nair calls it "bringing the receipts": analysts see not just the conclusion but every step of the reasoning. Early results show a 10x increase in investigation speed and 60-70% of alerts being automatically triaged.

The network is having a resurgence as an essential visibility layer, and Nair explains why: attackers have adapted to EDR. Nation-state-style campaigns like Volt Typhoon and Salt Typhoon operate in the network layer, targeting unmanaged devices, routers, firewalls, and VPNs that endpoint tools cannot see. Corelight almost always finds something in the first 30 days of a pilot deployment -- from shadow IT and shadow VPNs to active red team attacks using tools like Sliver-based C2 frameworks.

On the question of SOC adoption, Nair pushes back on the assumption that hesitation comes from the top. The hunger for AI-powered tools runs from CISOs all the way down to the analysts dealing with alert overload and understaffed teams. A recent customer put it simply: "This is amazing. Please don't take it away from me." Nair frames the path to full autonomy as a spectrum -- from human-controlled to fully agentic -- and draws the comparison to Waymo: the journey is measured and incremental, but the destination is inevitable.

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Vijit Nair, VP of Product Management, Corelight
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