AI Security Operations · Microsoft-Native

AI Security Operations for the Microsoft Cloud

The model reads the evidence. The verdict is math.

Knows your environment. Judges every alert against what's normal. Surfaces the posture gaps that matter — and shows its work.

Session Token Replay · Account Takeover
m.chen@acmecorp.com · 2026-06-17 08:42 UTC · Entra ID Protection + Defender XDR + Cloud Apps
Resolved autonomously · 10s · 0 human touches
1
Detect · evidence
Correlation rule fired
An OAuth token was replayed from a new ASN minutes after a clean sign-in.
08:42:01
2
Investigate · evidence
7 signals gathered
Sign-in logs, device state, mailbox rules and file activity pulled across Entra, XDR and Cloud Apps.
08:42:03
3
god's Eye · memory
Reputation checked
Device never seen on the fleet · IP has no clean history · a new inbox-forwarding rule is flagged hostile.
08:42:05
4
LLM · scores evidence
Per-signal scoring → axes
Each signal graded against the taxonomy; code computes Threat 92 · Detection 95 · Maliciousness 88.
08:42:06
5
Code · verdict
Matrix → CONFIRMED_MALICIOUS
Deterministic, cited from 7 signals. No model text reaches the decision.
08:42:07
6
LLM · advisory
Action proposed
Recommends: revoke sessions, disable the account, remove the attacker's inbox rule.
08:42:08
7
Code · law / policy gate
Each action evaluated against policy
PERMIT →revoke sessions + disable account — reversible, within policy
ESCALATE →delete mailbox rule — irreversible, routed to a human
08:42:09
8
Execute · authorized
Threat contained
Sessions revoked, account disabled — autonomously. The attacker is locked out.
08:42:11
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Audit · evidence
Logged & reconstructable
The full signal array, verdict, gate decisions and actions are written to an immutable trail.
08:42:11
Engine Verdict
CONFIRMED MALICIOUS
Severity: Critical · cited from 7 signals
Confidence96%
Time to contain10 sec
A human analyst~30 min
Human touches to contain0
Held for human review1 step
Full autonomy, bounded.  Detection → verdict → action with no human in the loop — and the single irreversible step held for review. Every line above is logged and reconstructable.
01The Problem

Security teams are drowning in their own alarms.

Detection got cheap. Investigation didn't. Every tool ships more alerts than any team can read, and nearly half lead nowhere — so the real attack waits in a queue no one finishes. This is the gap every breach walks through.

46%
of all SOC alerts are false positives — half of every analyst's day produces no security value.
Microsoft / Omdia, State of the SOC 2026
63%
of the ~2,992 alerts an org sees daily go entirely unaddressed.
Vectra AI, 2026
<10%
false-positive rate is what a world-class SOC achieves. Most run 90%+.
Expel, 2026
67%
of organizations can't hire the analysts to close the gap by adding people.
ISC2 Workforce Study
02The Insight

The model proposes. The code decides — and the code acts.

Every competitor lets a language model reason its way to a conclusion, then act on it. That's fast — and unauditable. When a regulator, a client, or a courtroom asks why an alert was closed or an account was disabled, "the model decided" is not an answer. Legion splits the engine into two deterministic stages, and the model is shut out of both decisions.

1The verdict— what is it?

LLMWhat the model does

  • Reads each signal against a fixed evidence taxonomy
  • Scores it: which axis, which direction, how much weight
  • Grounds every signal to a real Microsoft source field
  • Explains its reasoning, one sentence per signal

CODEWhat only the code does

  • Computes four independent axes from the scored evidence
  • Resolves the verdict from a deterministic matrix
  • Rejects any verdict that can't cite its evidence
  • Never lets model text become the decision
The verdict matrix · Threat × Maliciousness · the same inputs always produce the same verdict
M 0–20
21–40
41–60
61–80
81–100
T 81+
EXPECTED
ESCALATE
ESCALATE
CONFIRMED
CONFIRMED
61–80
FALSE+
SUSPECT
ESCALATE
LIKELY
CONFIRMED
41–60
FALSE+
FALSE+
SUSPECT
LIKELY
LIKELY
21–40
BENIGN
FALSE+
SUSPECT
SUSPECT
LIKELY
T 0–20
BENIGN
BENIGN
BENIGN
SUSPECT
SUSPECT

The highlighted cell is the password spray from the demo above: high threat, ambiguous intent. Code routes it to a human instead of forcing a call. Every weight feeding it is logged — a verdict you can't reconstruct is one you can't defend.

2The action— what do we do about it?

A verdict on its own changes nothing. The dangerous part of any autonomous SOC is what it does — disable an account, revoke a session, quarantine a host, or simply close the ticket. So the action stage gets the same treatment as the verdict: the model may propose, but a deterministic policy gate decides whether anything runs.

From stage 1
Verdict
The cited, reconstructable decision the matrix produced.
LLM · advisory
Proposed action
The model recommends a response and the reasoning for it. It is a proposal — nothing more.
Code · deterministic
Law / Policy Gate
Evaluates every actionable step against policy: verdict tier, blast radius, reversibility, eligibility. The model never re-enters here.
Permit → execute
Runs the action — but dry-run / report-only by default, and only for the classes a verdict tier is allowed to touch. High-blast-radius actions (e.g. global-admin changes) never run automatically.
Deny / blind → human
Anything outside policy, or any signal the gate can't verify, routes to an analyst. Blind equals escalate — the gate never guesses its way to an action.
The point that gets missed: closing the ticket is itself an action. Auto-close passes the same gate as disabling an account — because a wrongful auto-close is how a real attack gets buried. Every outcome, including "do nothing," is a logged, policy-evaluated decision. That is what makes autonomous action sellable to a regulated client: autonomy with no unbounded blast radius.
03The System

Two engines. One brain above them, one gate below them.

Legion isn't a single triage tool. It's an autonomous security operation: one engine that responds to attacks in flight, one that closes the gaps that let them in — and both share the same two pieces of infrastructure. Above them, god's Eye supplies graded evidence and known-good baselines. Below them, the Law / Policy Gate authorizes every action. The reactive engine is live today; the proactive engine is the expansion that roughly doubles the surface Legion owns.

● LIVE IN PRODUCTION
Reactive engine — Respond
Deal with what's happening right now

The autonomous analyst. It detects an alert, investigates it, scores the evidence, and computes a cited verdict — then recommends the action and routes it for response. This is the beachhead, and it's running against live clients today.

DetectInvestigateScoreVerdictRecommendRespond
○ ROADMAP · THE EXPANSION
Proactive engine — Prevent
Close the gaps before they're used

Goal-driven hardening. It takes the org's intent — Secure Score, HIPAA, CMMC — reads the actual state of the tenant, finds the gaps, and proposes graded fixes through the same safety gate. Report-only first. This turns Legion from incident response into continuous prevention.

IntentBaselineCompareGapTaskHarden
◐ THE BRAIN ABOVE · SHARED UPSTREAM · PARTIALLY BUILT
god's Eye — Remember

One reputation brain feeds both engines: graded evidence into the reactive verdict, and a known-good baseline into the proactive engine. It deepens with every tenant and every day, and it cuts both ways — vouching for what it trusts, flagging what it has learned to distrust. Detailed in the next section.

grounds the reactive verdictgrounds the proactive baselinecuts both ways
The gate below · shared downstream · ~12% built — the unlock the raise funds
Neither engine acts on its own authority. Every proposed action from either engine — disable, revoke, quarantine, harden, or auto-close — passes one deterministic Law / Policy Gate, defaults to dry-run / report-only, and logs every outcome to an audit trail. Autonomy without a blast radius is the difference between a tool a regulated MSP can deploy and a demo it can't. Building this gate to production strength is the single highest-leverage item on the roadmap: it stands between today's live triage and a fully autonomous response-and-prevention platform.
04god's Eye

The brain that sits between both engines — and compounds.

Most AI-SOC tools have no memory: every alert is judged cold. god's Eye is Legion's institutional memory — a reputation engine that remembers every entity it has ever seen across every tenant, and grades how far to trust it. It never decides a verdict and never closes a ticket; it produces graded, cited evidence and hands it to the deterministic engine. But because it feeds both the reactive and proactive engines, it's the one component that makes the whole platform smarter over time.

Auto-close that survives an audit

god's Eye supplies a graded trust signal on every entity — vouching for known-good software and devices, flagging what keeps appearing next to trouble. Fewer false escalations, and an auto-close you can defend with cited history.

One shared memory

Evidence producer, never an authority. Grounds both engines from the same earned history.

A baseline the proactive engine can act on

god's Eye holds the pre-compromise known-good baseline. The proactive engine diffs current state against it to scope remediation precisely — and a confirmed incident re-anchors the baseline so cleanup doesn't absorb the attacker's changes as "normal."

Reputation that can't be spoofed

Reputation strength scales with how unspoofable the match is. A name-only match earns a little; a verified code signature seen across the fleet over months of clean history earns a lot — because an impostor can't fake the signature, the fleet-wide prevalence, and the clean record all at once.

The moat compounds with every tenant

Confidence ramps as clean history accrues — every tenant-day makes the brain sharper. A better-funded latecomer can copy the code, but not the earned memory across a fleet of live environments. The moat is the history, and the history compounds.

Cuts both ways

Reputation isn't one-directional. An entity that keeps surfacing next to suspicious behaviour sees its trust shrink and then flip into a flag. Good standing is earned and revocable — the same mechanism that suppresses noise also catches the thing that learned to look normal.

Honest state: the recognition layer is fully built, tested, graded, and bidirectional — it just isn't wired into the live verdict path yet. That wiring is the near-term unlock (~40% complete): turning a proven memory engine into a signal the production engine consumes on every alert. The hard part — the architecture that keeps it an evidence producer rather than an unaccountable oracle — is already done.
05What's Running Today

Not a demo. The reactive engine is in production.

The first of the three layers — detection to cited verdict — is live across multiple production MSP tenants on different Microsoft licensing tiers. It runs on a five-minute cadence against real client environments. The deployment gate is a passing test suite, not a slide.

DEPLOYED

Multi-tenant from day one

One engine serves several live MSP clients in parallel, each isolated, each on its own Microsoft tier. Built for the channel, not a single in-house SOC.

NATIVE

Sits on the Microsoft stack

Reads Sentinel, Defender XDR, Defender for Cloud Apps, Purview, Intune and Entra directly. No rip-and-replace, no new agent to deploy.

CADENCE

Every five minutes

Core detection queries run continuously off the live tree. Saving a validated change deploys it next tick. The test suite is the safety rail.

Reactive enginerespond · live
82%
god's Eye memoryremember · partial
40%
Proactive engineprevent · roadmap
10%
Action / response layeract · building
22%
Law / Policy Gategovern · the unlock
12%

Honest build state, not a wish. The proven reactive front is the asset today; the raise funds the memory wiring, the shared gate, and the proactive engine — exactly the layers that turn a triage tool into an autonomous platform.

06The Moat

It gets harder to copy the longer it runs.

Speed is table stakes in this category. Legion's edge is structural — and it compounds with every tenant and every day in production.

01

Auditability as a product

Deterministic, evidence-cited verdicts are a compliance asset for regulated clients — HIPAA, CMMC. "The model decided" doesn't pass an audit. A reconstructable verdict does. No incumbent is built this way.

02

MSP-native distribution

The incumbents sell to enterprises with in-house SOCs. Legion was built inside an MSP, for the MSP channel — the fastest path to the thousands of mid-market environments the funded players skipped.

03

Compounding memory

god's Eye is a data network effect: every tenant-day of clean history makes every verdict and every posture check sharper. That earned memory can't be bought off the shelf or backfilled by a better-funded latecomer.

07Market & Timing

A category the market has already bet on — at the enterprise end.

The spend is large and growing, the analyst shortage is structural, and capital is pouring in. The opening Legion takes is the segment the funded players skipped: the channel, and verdicts that survive an audit.

$14.8B → $26.9B
SOC-as-a-service spend, 2026 to 2031.
Mordor Intelligence
$46B+
Total SOC market in 2025; MDR is ~41% of as-a-service spend.
Research Nester
5% → 70%
Forecast rise in multi-agent AI for detection & response — to augment, not replace, staff.
Gartner

Why the timing is right

Investors have already validated the thesis at the high end: Dropzone AI has raised $57M and runs in 300+ enterprises; Prophet Security took a $30M Series A from Accel; TENEX.AI raised a $250M Series B. The demand is proven and the buyers are educated.

Every one of them sells autonomous triage to enterprises with their own analysts, and every one lets the model reach the conclusion. Legion's wedge is the part they left open: the MSP channel that protects the mid-market, and a verdict architecture built to be defended rather than trusted on faith — delivered by a team that reached production on a fraction of the capital.

08Why This Team
"I built it against real clients, under real load, with no room for a verdict I couldn't explain."
Legion was designed, built, and put into production by its founder, running live against client environments rather than in a lab. The architecture's discipline — deterministic authority, cited evidence, fail-safe escalation — comes from operating a SOC, not theorizing about one.

The result: a production system reached on a fraction of the capital the funded category leaders have consumed.
The Opportunity

AI Security Operations you can put under audit.

Project Legion is raising to harden the response layer, open the MSP channel, and turn the reputation engine into a moat no competitor can backfill. The data room — architecture, live deployment detail, and round terms — is available under NDA.

Coming soon