{"id":212406,"date":"2026-02-11T15:42:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T20:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/11\/survey-widespread-adoption-of-ai-hasnt-yet-reduced-cybersecurity-burnout\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T15:50:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T20:50:10","slug":"survey-widespread-adoption-of-ai-hasnt-yet-reduced-cybersecurity-burnout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/11\/survey-widespread-adoption-of-ai-hasnt-yet-reduced-cybersecurity-burnout\/","title":{"rendered":"Survey: Widespread Adoption of AI Hasn&#8217;t Yet Reduced Cybersecurity Burnout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/securityboulevard.com\/2026\/02\/survey-widespread-adoption-of-ai-hasnt-yet-reduced-cybersecurity-burnout\/\">Survey: Widespread Adoption of AI Hasn&#8217;t Yet Reduced Cybersecurity Burnout<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/securityboulevard.com\/2026\/02\/survey-widespread-adoption-of-ai-hasnt-yet-reduced-cybersecurity-burnout\/\">https:\/\/securityboulevard.com\/2026\/02\/survey-widespread-adoption-of-ai-hasnt-yet-reduced-cybersecurity-burnout\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-02-11 15:42:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"securityboulevard.com\">securityboulevard.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A global survey of 1,813 IT and cybersecurity professionals finds that despite the rise of artificial intelligence (AI) and automation, cybersecurity teams still spend on average 44% of their time on manual or repetitive work.<\/p>\n<p>Conducted by Sapio Research on behalf of Tines, a provider of an automation platform, the survey also notes that as the amount of work continues to increase, so too does the level of burnout. A full 81% said security workloads increased in 2025, with more than three quarters (76%) experiencing burnout and 39% attributing that burnout specifically to heavy workloads.<\/p>\n<p>In comparison, just over a quarter attributed burnout to the stresses of incident response, while 26% cited repetitive tasks. A total of 60% also noted they are spending at least 40% of their time on repetitive tasks that could be automated, the survey finds<\/p>\n<p>The main obstacles to automation are security or compliance concerns (35%), budget or resource constraints (32%), integration gaps between tools \u200b(31%), legacy or outdated systems \u200b(30%) and insufficient skills or training \u200b(29%). Additionally, the top challenges with existing tools are high maintenance costs (42%), limited automation (34%), overlapping functionality \u200b(33%) and lack of integration \u200b(31%).<\/p>\n<p>Conversely, the top benefits of automation are higher productivity \u200b(48%), faster response times \u200b(41%), better data accuracy (40%), stronger compliance (34%), quicker decision-making (33%), better team visibility (33%) and smoother collaboration (33%).<\/p>\n<p>While the full impact of AI and automation has not yet been realized, nearly all respondents (99%) said security operations centers have embedded AI to some degree in their workflows. Areas where AI is proving most effective are threat intelligence and detection \u200b(61%), identity and access monitoring \u200b(56%), compliance and policy writing \u200b(56%), phishing or email analysis (55%), ticket triage and workflow automation \u200b(53%), reporting and communication&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/securityboulevard.com\/2026\/02\/survey-widespread-adoption-of-ai-hasnt-yet-reduced-cybersecurity-burnout\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Survey: Widespread Adoption of AI Hasn&#8217;t Yet Reduced Cybersecurity Burnout https:\/\/securityboulevard.com\/2026\/02\/survey-widespread-adoption-of-ai-hasnt-yet-reduced-cybersecurity-burnout\/ Publish Date: 2026-02-11 15:42:00&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":212407,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/securityboulevard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Untitled-design-31.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[20,25,57],"class_list":["post-212406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cybersecurity","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-phishing","tag-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212406"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212406"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":212408,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212406\/revisions\/212408"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}