Security Operations
We've curated 106 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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Security teams require mid-to-high levels of manual intervention for response, at 47%.
Security teams require mid-to-high levels of manual intervention for detection, at 42%.
Security teams require mid-to-high levels of manual intervention for alert triage, at 43%.
Security teams require mid-to-high levels of manual intervention for investigation, at 49%.
11% of security professionals are still experimenting with AI-driven decision-making.
26% of security professionals say chasing false positives and low-priority alerts wastes the most time in their security team.
97% of US-based physical security operations professionals are either currently using AI or actively evaluating it for security operations.
59% of organizations report their security teams are currently understaffed.
Large enterprises report false alarm rates approaching 44%.
36% of security leaders say downtime is often or very often misclassified as an IT issue.
44% of organizations test their security biannually or less, or not at all.
The most commonly outsourced cybersecurity services among middle market firms are cloud security management (50%), security awareness training (44%), security operations center services (43%), and risk and compliance management (41%).
Only 29% of organizations conduct continuous simulation testing.
73% of organizations are using AI agents in their Security Operations Center at a moderate to high level.
88% of organizations are actively implementing or have established clearly defined guardrails or governance policies for AI security tools.
77% of cybersecurity professionals prefer AI solutions that prioritize analyst oversight and control over fully independent action.
63% of organizations expect to embed AI as a baseline capability in day-to-day security operations by 2027.
55% of teams at enterprises report that AI has met expectations in security operations.
Almost one-third of organizations report extensive AI use across most or all threat detection and incident response activities, up from 25% last year.
91% of enterprises experience workflow bottlenecks despite deploying AI and automation.