Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

Every conversation our team has with security leaders begins the same way. Nobody is backing off on AI in the SOC. The direction of the lean is what’s shifting. Torq’s 2026 AI SOC Leadership Report surveyed more than 450 CISOs and SOC leaders. The data confirms what those conversations were already telling me. We’ve left the adoption phase. The market is now in the architecture phase and the implications for how teams plan, buy, and build are significant.

Most “AI SOC” demos out there can look great. The polished dashboard, the confident verdict, the slide that says “autonomous.” A demo is built to show the platform at its best, on clean data, in a controlled environment, answering a question the vendor already knew was coming. The differences only show up after you’ve signed, when the platform meets your real stack, alert volume, and compliance requirements.