In this interview from the Mixture of Experts series, previewing the AI Agent Conference 2026, Ofer Smadari, chief executive officer and co-founder of Torq, joins theCUBE's John Furrier to discuss how agentic AI is transforming security operations from a human-scale problem into a machine-speed discipline. Smadari explains that modern enterprises juggle 70 to 120 security tools, each generating a relentless stream of alerts — one major bank alone processes one billion security events and 200,000 alerts per day. Torq's agentic platform acts as an autonomous first responder, triaging, investigating and resolving those alerts with a 90% reduction in the analyst headcount traditionally required. The conversation also explores how AI-generated threats are accelerating the urgency for automated defense, with Smadari noting that a single individual can now build sophisticated malware in two days using AI — a task that once demanded teams of 50 and government funding. He details Torq's natural-language workflow builder, which lets security engineers describe desired automations in plain English, eliminating the need for deep coding expertise. Deployed as a cloud-native SaaS platform with onboarding measured in minutes, Torq runs billions of actions weekly for Fortune 500 customers across banking, aviation and the federal sector while sustaining triple-digit revenue growth year over year. From the evolving role of security analysts as operators rather than deep engineers to the company's "AI or die" philosophy that embeds AI across every function, Smadari provides a practical roadmap for why machine-speed defense is no longer optional.