Across a variety of industries, the adoption of automation and artificial intelligence (AI) initiatives has meant less of a burden and more opportunity for many employees and businesses alike. While security operations have made good progress here, especially in the last four years, there is still a long way to go. Today, it is both common and accurate to point out that warm-bodied, innovative human adversaries will invariably defeat a technology-based defense. But, the path to success requires focused and effective automation technologies like AI and machine learning (ML) to supercharge the expertise and experience of an equally innovative and warm-bodied defender working as part of an enterprise security operations center (SOC) and outsourced services like managed detection and response (MDR).