Security Teams Embrace AI, Just Not at the Scale Marketing Suggests
Security Teams Embrace AI, Just Not at the Scale Marketing Suggests
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Publish Date: 2026-01-29 04:00:00
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Security leaders are seeing the benefits of AI in security operations, but not at the scale vendors claim, according to a new study by Sumo Logic.
In its 2026 Security Operations Insights report, published on January 28, the cloud SIEM provider found that 96% of surveyed security leaders said they’ve adopted AI and machine learning (ML).
Of these, 90% believe AI is valuable in reducing alert fatigue and improving detection accuracy and almost half (49%) said it is “extremely” valuable.
Nevertheless, the Sumo Logic study showed that the devil is in the details: despite this seemingly widespread adoption of AI for security operations, respondents only mentioned what the cybersecurity firm described as “relatively basic AI use cases.”
These included AI/ML for threat detection, which 49% of security leaders mentioned as their prime use of AI in security operations, automated response (20%), anomaly detection (17%) and incident triage (9%).
“This contradicts the marketing narratives that suggest most security leaders have widely adopted AI throughout their security and cloud operations workflows,” the report said.
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Security Leaders Blame Inflated Security Tech Stacks
The Sumo Logic report also showed that, while most organizations are modernizing their technology ecosystems – an effort largely driven by cloud adoption – security leaders have many contentious points regarding their security tech stack.
For instance, over half of respondents (55%) estimate they have too many point solutions in their security stack, with 93% of organizations using at least three security operations tools and 45% using six or more.
Furthermore, 80% of respondents said their security and DevOps teams use shared observability tools, but only 45% said the two teams are very aligned on tooling and workflows.
Overall, the Sumo Logic study found that most organizations are experiencing rapid change…
