Episode 19 - The Cap on Inference: Proving How Network Data Quality Drives AI Security ROI

In this episode, host Richard Bejtlich sits down with Corelight Co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer Greg Bell to unpack groundbreaking research that quantifies exactly how data quality impacts AI-driven security automation. Moving past qualitative industry hype, Greg shares hard evidence from an empirical experiment pitting leading AI agents against real-world Capture the Flag (CTF) challenges and incident response report writing. The findings reveal a dramatic truth: basic firewall and flow logs place a hard cap on inference, throttling an LLM's capacity for deep insight. By upgrading to higher-fidelity, densely linked network data, teams can boost automated threat hunting accuracy, eliminate costly LLM hallucinations, and dramatically reduce token consumption budgets by enabling security agents to solve problems twice as fast. Read the full research paper: https://corelight.com/blog/data-quality-limits-ai-soc-performance