Sat Nov 08 06:00:00 UTC 2025: ## SentinelOne CEO: Cybersecurity Industry’s ‘Agentic’ Claims Fall Short of Real Outcomes
Las Vegas, NV – SentinelOne Co-Founder and CEO Tomer Weingarten has thrown down the gauntlet, criticizing the current wave of AI-powered “agentic” security solutions as more marketing hype than tangible improvement in cyber defense. Speaking at SentinelOne’s OneCon 2025 conference in Las Vegas, Weingarten asserted that many vendors are rushing to market with AI agents, prioritizing the “agentic” label over delivering real-world results.
Weingarten contrasted this trend with SentinelOne’s approach, which he claims is the first to deliver a “fully agentic” Security Operations Center (SOC) offering. He argued that other vendors are merely providing tools to build agents, shifting the burden of implementation and workflow creation onto the customer.
“Everybody wants to say they have agents,” Weingarten told CRN. “But tangible outcomes? That’s a whole different story right now.”
SentinelOne’s vision is a “turnkey” agentic SOC platform that can become increasingly autonomous as it gains the trust of partners and customers. This approach, Weingarten argued, eliminates the need for customers to piece together individual agents for tasks like alert triage or threat investigation.
Weingarten also highlighted the opportunities for partners in helping customers secure their adoption of generative AI, pointing to SentinelOne’s recent acquisition of Prompt Security as a key enabler.
Beyond the agentic SOC, Weingarten warned of the growing influence of geopolitics on the cyber landscape, particularly the potential for increased cyberattacks and disinformation campaigns. He cited the possibility of a Chinese invasion of Taiwan by 2027 and a Russian invasion of a second European country by 2030 as scenarios that necessitate increased cyber preparedness.
Weingarten emphasized the importance of monitoring all attack surfaces and connecting data sources to enable autonomous threat detection and response, and advocated that SentinelOne is now focused on building the logic and intelligence required to solve the big issues in cybersecurity, rather than focusing on building more controls for the enterprise and adding another buck to SentinelOne’s P&L.
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