In Conversation with Monzy Merza on the Rise of the Agentic SOC

Digital Digest's Meera Nair sits down with Crogl CEO Monzy Merza to go deep on the architecture of the Agentic SOC: why traditional automation keeps failing under pressure, how a knowledge engine differs from a log store, and why data sovereignty is a structural requirement, not a compliance checkbox.

Monzy traces the founding insight behind Crogl, including the three operator realities he encountered firsthand that shaped the product: fragmented data that cannot be normalized, a unicorn shortage masquerading as a headcount problem, and the absence of a real team dynamic in most SOC environments.

Topics covered:

• Why human-in-the-loop has become a design excuse, and when humans should and should not be in the loop
• How SOAR's structural reliance on normalized data makes it brittle against real-world environments
• The neuro-symbolic case: why the SOC needs both rules and reasoning in a single system
• Where AI is delivering measurable ROI in 2026, and where it is decorating the same broken workflow
• What "your data never leaves" actually means architecturally, and why it is a strategic requirement, not a marketing line
• Why SIEM is becoming infrastructure and the Agentic SOC layer is moving up the stack

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