Autonomy Levels

Autonomy is a question of who decides, and when.

ARRTECH Security Suite and Cyberdroid · Updated Sep 23, 2026

Can AI run a SOC?

AI can investigate a SOC's alerts, but people decide what the SOC does. We place every ARRTECH product available today on five levels of who decides and when. Each is designed to keep people, or the rules they write, in charge.

Diagram: five levels of autonomy, rising from left to right. Observes only: AI Detection. Investigates, read-only: AI Investigation. Works when approved: delegated work. Acts by rule: SIEM, SOAR and DLP. Acts alone: none. An axis runs from a person decides to no person decides.

Levels

  1. Observes only.

    Raises findings. A person judges each one.

  2. Investigates, read-only.

    Writes a case through read-only queries. A person reviews it.

  3. Works when approved.

    Works only on approved tasks, and a person accepts the result. In early access.

  4. Acts by rule.

    Acts only as your team wrote in advance. SOAR playbooks wait at each Operator node for a person.

  5. Acts alone.

    Acts with no person's rule or approval. Our products are designed to keep a person or your rules in charge.

Limits

Scale

This scale is ours. It shows the most each product can do today, not what every deployment uses.

Rules

Acting by rule is only as safe as the rules. Review changes to playbooks and DLP policies as you would any change to production.

Standards

Naming a clause is not a claim of certification.

OECD

The OECD's framework for reporting AI incidents asks for a system's maximum autonomy level. This scale gives each of our products one.

OWASP

LLM06:2025, Excessive Agency, is more permission or autonomy than a task needs. The first two levels give our models read access only.

NIST

AI RMF MAP 2.2 asks how output is used and overseen by people. This page documents that for every product available today.

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