{"id":264868,"date":"2026-06-05T07:20:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T11:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/05\/only-10-of-socs-say-theyre-getting-excellent-value-from-ai-heres-what-the-second-wave-has-to-deliver\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T08:55:34","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T12:55:34","slug":"only-10-of-socs-say-theyre-getting-excellent-value-from-ai-heres-what-the-second-wave-has-to-deliver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/05\/only-10-of-socs-say-theyre-getting-excellent-value-from-ai-heres-what-the-second-wave-has-to-deliver\/","title":{"rendered":"Only 10% of SOCs Say They\u2019re Getting Excellent Value From AI. Here\u2019s What the Second Wave Has to Deliver"},"content":{"rendered":"

Only 10% of SOCs Say They\u2019re Getting Excellent Value From AI. Here\u2019s What the Second Wave Has to Deliver<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2026\/06\/only-10-of-socs-say-theyre-getting.html<\/a><\/p>\n

Publish Date: 2026-06-05 07:20:00<\/a><\/p>\n

Source Domain: thehackernews.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Eighteen months ago, the AI SOC was a marketing line. Today it’s a budget item. The category has crossed over from interesting to inevitable, with billions of dollars now flowing into AI-powered security operations platforms, agentic SOC tools, and AI co-pilots built into every layer of the security stack. The data shows SOCs are buying, deploying, and standing up AI capabilities at the fastest pace the industry has ever seen.<\/p>\n

And yet, the same SOCs reporting record AI adoption are reporting underwhelming outcomes. The first objective benchmark on the value of AI in the SOC was published in the SOC-CMM 2026 Maturity Report in May, drawing on survey data collected from roughly 200 SOCs across regions, sectors, and delivery models between late January and mid-March 2026. Only about 10% of respondents said AI has delivered excellent value to their SOC. About 19% reported good value. The remaining 71% landed at some value or none at all.<\/p>\n

Eighteen months into AI deployment, that’s a structural signal. What follows is a read on what the data confirms, and on what the next wave of AI in security operations must deliver if the industry is going to close the gap.<\/p>\n

What the SOC-CMM 2026 data shows<\/h2>\n

Three findings stand out in the SOC-CMM report’s AI section, and they correlate cleanly with each other once they are read together.<\/p>\n

First, adoption is up across every category of AI used inside the SOC. Off-the-shelf large language models grew 55% year over year. AI co-pilots grew 145%. AI agents grew 118%. Supervised machine learning grew 96%. Customized LLMs grew 64%. SOC teams are over-investing in AI without the operational maturity to extract value from what they bought.<\/p>\n

Second, the dominant adoption pattern is what the report calls the taker model: off-the-shelf AI deployed inside an existing security stack without customization. About 65% of SOCs surveyed describe themselves as takers. Another 20% are shapers, customizing what they buy. Only 15% are builders,…<\/p>\n

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