Security Operations
We've curated 62 cybersecurity statistics about Security Operations to help you understand how threat detection, incident response, and monitoring practices are evolving in 2025 to combat increasingly sophisticated cyber threats.
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Many organizations run 50 or more security products.
77% of security professionals express some level of comfort with deploying agentic systems and allowing them to act without human review.
44% of security teams use AI for incident response workflows.
71% of defenders set aside important security tasks at least two days per week.
31% of security professionals identify integration gaps between tools as an obstacle to scaling AI and automation.
Manual or repetitive work consumes 44% of security teams' time.
77% of security teams regularly rely on AI, automation, or workflow tools.
45% of enterprise organizations say security and DevOps teams are very aligned on tooling and workflows.
80% of enterprise organizations say security and DevOps use shared observability tools.
99% of security operations centers use AI.
40% of organizations reported that they already use AI for threat hunting in 2025.
32% of organizations plan to use AI within the next 12 months for intrusion detection in 2025.
25% of organizations reported that company intellectual property was compromised in the past year due to security incidents.
54% of organizations reported that they already use AI for SIEM data management in 2025.
75% of internal Security Operations Center (SOC) teams reported a skills shortage in intrusion detection as of 2025, which poses a risk to proactive threat management.
35% of security leaders reported a significant increase in the time from detecting an attack to resolution over the past 12 months, emphasizing the growing complexity of cybersecurity incidents.
78% of organizations experienced endpoint-related cyber incidents, such as those involving laptops or PCs, in the past 12 months, according to the 2025 Security Operations Trends Report.
77% of internal Security Operations Center (SOC) teams reported a skills shortage in penetration testing as of 2025, indicating a significant gap in essential cybersecurity capabilities.
46% of organizations plan to use AI within the next 12 months for risk assessment in 2025.
Organizations faced an average cost of $3.7 million due to successful cyber attacks in the past year, according to the 2025 Security Operations Trends Report.