Fal.Con 2026 Recap | Torq

The Torq team at CrowdStrike's Fal.Con Conference 2026

The Torq team headed back to Vegas for CrowdStrike’s Fal.Con conference this week, and it quickly became clear that the conversation has moved past whether AI belongs in the SOC. This year, everyone wanted to know what happens after a detection fires and who actually closes the case.

That question is the reason Torq and CrowdStrike fit together so well: CrowdStrike finds threats, and the Torq AI SOC Platform finishes them. Here’s what stood out from the week.

The Gap in the Current SOC Model

There are too many alerts, too few analysts, and too many threats slipping through the gap between the two. Detection has never been better. Closure is where teams still drown.

What changed in 2026 is the noise around the fix. The market is now crowded with “AI SOCs” that stop at triage — they summarize an alert, maybe suggest a next step, and hand it back to a human. That is not finishing the job. A CrowdStrike Falcon detection deserves a platform that carries it all the way from alert to closed case, automatically.

What Everyone Was Talking About at Fal.Con 2026

Four themes came up at Torq’s Fal.Con booth.

1. Finishing the job, not just flagging it: A CrowdStrike Falcon detection flows straight into Torq Auto Triage, then investigation, then response, then a closed case, with prebuilt CrowdStrike steps. Watching an alert close itself is a different demo than watching one get summarized.
2. Grounding agentic decisions in your SOC’s reality: Beneath Torq’s AI Agents sits the Torq SOC Brain™, which makes autonomy trustworthy: the Context Graph models your environment, Torq Recall draws on your case history, and Torq Reflex learns your team’s judgment over time.
3. Turning autonomy into a dial: Socrates orchestrates Torq HyperAgents™ with transparent reasoning. Autonomy is a dial you widen as trust builds.
4. Bridging the SOC and the rest of the stack: Torq connects to CrowdStrike Falcon and other data sources to correlate, act, and manage data across the whole environment.

Torq + CrowdStrike: Better Together

The Torq and CrowdStrike partnership runs deep. Torq’s AI SOC platform integrates across CrowdStrike Falcon detections, incident response, and vulnerability management. There is no manual handoff between CrowdStrike finding a threat and Torq closing the case.

While Falcon Fusion automates inside the CrowdStrike ecosystem, Torq orchestrates those signals across identity, cloud, email, and ticketing. A Falcon detection triggers endpoint containment and then coordinates action wherever else it needs to go across the entire SOC.

Above the integration sits Socrates, Torq’s agentic AI SOC orchestrator, which reasons through an investigation, plans next steps, and closes nearly 95% of cases automatically. The entire action plan runs on Falcon-native data from detection to remediation:

• Detection: Falcon Next-Gen SIEM telemetry via CrowdStrike trigger
• Investigation: Natural language hunting through a Torq NGSIEM query agent
• Response: Falcon Real Time Response commands executed from inside Torq
• Vulnerability prioritization: CVEs from Falcon Exposure Management scores against CISA and NIST

Every alert triggered by CrowdStrike is fed into Torq Auto Triage for filtration and prioritization, and every security case gets AI case summaries, agentic investigation, and a full audit trail. The agentic decisions are based on the Torq Context Graph, building on Falcon telemetry with real grounding.

The partnership is the difference between a detection and a defensible outcome, with:

• 60-second average triage time
• 60x increased triage velocity
• 10x faster response
• 95%+ of Tier 1 work auto-remediated
• Near-real-time case management on CrowdStrike data

Onstage: What a Unified AI SOC Actually Looks Like

I had 20 minutes on the Fal.Con theater stage this year, discussing findings from Torq’s 2026 AI SOC Leadership Report: 94% of security teams now use AI, and most say they want something different.

The tension in those data points indicates that while AI adoption is high, many teams aren’t satisfied. Most “AI SOC” tools stop at triage, resulting in disconnected solutions that don’t see the full picture.

The data shows trust and transparency in AI decisions are crucial. CISOs need to see why AI reached a decision before trusting it to act:

• 92%: Continuous learning & adaptation to attack patterns
• 90%: Explainable AI decisions
• 89%: End-to-end SecOps: triage to remediation
• 89%: Autonomous response actions
• 86%: Full platform integration

The answer: a unified AI SOC platform. I walked through how enterprises like Carvana, Valvoline, and Kenvue are using the Torq AI SOC Platform today.

See Torq + CrowdStrike in Action

Detection isn’t the hard part anymore. The advantage is in closing the case at machine speed, with a full audit trail behind every decision. CrowdStrike finds it. Torq finishes it. If we missed you at the booth, we’ll show you what that looks like on your own stack, running on your Falcon data.

Watch Torq Auto Triage On-Demand.