Torq is defense-only, built on workflows.
Simbian reasons and brings offense.
Torq is real agentic AI, but its AI writes workflows, and at runtime it's executing those workflows. It's also defense-only, with no offensive security. Simbian reasons through each alert with no workflow to build, and runs offense and defense on one platform, so a proven exploit sharpens the alert that should catch it.
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Agentic automation still leaves a workflow behind
Toggle between a known alert and a novel one, and watch what the automation leaves behind.
Handled before
User-reported phishing: credential harvesting
Source: Email security · An existing triage flow and Universal Auto Triage are in place, Socrates on hand
SimbianAutonomous
IngestAlert picked up from email security
·ReasonWorks the alert directly, forming a hypothesis from the evidence, not a matched pattern
·Apply contextPulls what it already knows about this user, asset, and prior cases from the Context Lake™
·EnrichDetonates the URL, checks sender history, pulls who else received it
·Evaluate severityWeighs blast radius and business context, then reaches a verdict: malicious, active credential theft
·ContainPurges org-wide, resets exposed identities, closes the case under the active mode
TorqAgentic + Hyperautomation
Build the workflowFirst, the triage workflow is authored in Torq's builder. Socrates speeds the authoring, but a Hyperautomation workflow is still the runtime artifact
·IngestAlert ingested; Universal Auto Triage separates noise from risk
·InvestigateSocrates tasks HyperAgents to enrich, build a timeline, and summarize, agentic and fast
·DecideAgentic verdict with a fully auditable reasoning record
·Respond + approveExecutes the workflow; sensitive actions pause for approval per configured guardrails
Defense-only workflows vs. offense and defense
R1
Coverage and speed
TorqSimbian
Resolves a known, matched alert on its own
Share of alert volume auto-resolved end-to-end
Speed on a matched alert
R2
Reasoning and the automation artifact
TorqSimbian
Reasons agentically about a novel or unfamiliar alert
Automates with no authored or generated workflow artifact
Cross-agent memory feeds the verdict, offense to defense
R3
Platform breadth and self-improvement
TorqSimbian
Offense and defense on one platform: AI SOC, AI Pentest, and AI Threat Hunt agents
One shared memory across every agent (Context Lake™ vs a response-domain Context Graph)
Self-improving: every attack simulated and case worked hardens the next
Cross-agent context: a pentest finding raises the severity of a related alert
R4
Operating cost and control
TorqSimbian
Ongoing workflow build and maintenance burden
Build effort and talent dependency
Human keeps containment authority, with graduated autonomy
Full Limited None
Frequently Asked Questions
Torq calls itself an AI SOC platform and positions past the SOAR label, though many still think of it as a SOAR. Its foundation is Torq Hyperautomation: agentic and deterministic workflows built in its builder, with Socrates orchestrating HyperAgents on top. It automates security response as a single-domain SOC platform, not an offensive-and-defensive one.
Yes. Even Torq's agentic automation produces a workflow: Socrates turns natural-language intent into production-ready HyperAgents and Hyperautomation workflows built in Torq's builder. The AI lowers the authoring effort, but the workflow is still the unit of automation to validate, version, and maintain. Simbian reasons per alert with no workflow artifact at all.
Torq orchestrates agentic HyperAgents over authored Hyperautomation workflows, within one response domain. Simbian's AI SOC Agent reasons through each alert with no workflow to build, and runs alongside AI Pentest and AI Threat Hunt agents on one Context Lake, so offense and defense compound. Simbian resolves 92% of alerts autonomously in production deployments.
No. Torq is a defensive SOC and response-automation platform; its roster has no autonomous offensive (pentest) agent, and its proactive hunting is a function of the SOC orchestrator. Simbian runs an AI Pentest Agent and an AI Threat Hunt Agent on the same platform, so a validated exploit path becomes context that sharpens a related SOC alert.
Simbian differs from Torq and most Torq competitors on two structural points: its automation is reasoning, not a workflow to build and maintain, and it spans offense and defense on one self-improving platform rather than a single response domain. Both resolve alerts autonomously; Simbian adds cross-agent context and a loop that compounds with every case.