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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.

Palo Alto Unit 422/22/2026
Tool SprawlSecurity Tools

77% of security professionals express some level of comfort with deploying agentic systems and allowing them to act without human review.

Ivanti2/14/2026
AIAutomation

44% of security teams use AI for incident response workflows.

Ivanti2/14/2026
Incident ResponseAI

71% of defenders set aside important security tasks at least two days per week.

Vectra AI2/11/2026
SOCDefenders

31% of security professionals identify integration gaps between tools as an obstacle to scaling AI and automation.

Tines2/4/2026
Integration

Manual or repetitive work consumes 44% of security teams' time.

Tines2/4/2026
Workload

77% of security teams regularly rely on AI, automation, or workflow tools.

Tines2/4/2026
Automation

45% of enterprise organizations say security and DevOps teams are very aligned on tooling and workflows.

Sumo Logic2/4/2026
Team AlignmentDevOps

80% of enterprise organizations say security and DevOps use shared observability tools.

Sumo Logic2/4/2026
ObservabilityDevOps

99% of security operations centers use AI.

Tines2/4/2026
Artificial Intelligence

40% of organizations reported that they already use AI for threat hunting in 2025.

Red Canary10/23/2025
AI

32% of organizations plan to use AI within the next 12 months for intrusion detection in 2025.

Red Canary10/23/2025

25% of organizations reported that company intellectual property was compromised in the past year due to security incidents.

Red Canary10/23/2025
Intellectual property

54% of organizations reported that they already use AI for SIEM data management in 2025.

Red Canary10/23/2025
SIEM

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.

Red Canary10/23/2025

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.

Red Canary10/23/2025
Time to detection

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.

Red Canary10/23/2025
Endpoint

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.

Red Canary10/23/2025
Pen TestingSkills

46% of organizations plan to use AI within the next 12 months for risk assessment in 2025.

Red Canary10/23/2025

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.

Red Canary10/23/2025
Cost of an incident