Is Your SOC Ready for AI Agents? A Maturity Check Before You Deploy

Summary: Prophet Security's State of AI in Security Operations 2026 survey of more than 250 CISOs, SOC leaders and practitioners found 40% of security teams use AI daily, 56% are testing it, and only 4% have no plans to adopt it. Respondents reported that 28% of their alerts are never investigated, that a thorough investigation takes an average of 75 minutes, and that up to 40% of organizations had switched off some detections for lack of people to check them.
What's compelling: Nearly three in ten alerts going uninvestigated is the baseline an AI SOC agent would inherit, and 57% of surveyed teams still require a human to review every AI decision before an alert is closed - so the oversight rules, not the model, set the pace of any deployment.

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