AI in Network Detection and Response: What Still Requires Deterministic Evidence
SC Media, Saturday, October 17th, 2026
When AI-driven NDR triggers automated response, teams must retain enough raw evidence to justify the decision later.
The explainer opens with an automated response that isolated a production segment on a behavioral model's verdict, after which reviewers could not reconstruct which flows triggered it because raw flow retention had expired.
Signature alerts carry their own justification by naming the rule and matched values, but a behavioral score names neither.
The piece argues this is a retention policy that was never recalibrated, not a logging failure.
It describes which detections and irreversible actions still require deterministic, reproducible evidence and how to align retention with automated response.