Gartner Hype Cycle™ for Security Operations, 2025

‍Leverage the Hype Cycle™ to refine your SOC strategy. Identify emerging trends and fading technologies in Security Operations.

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The latest Hype Cycle™ reveals seismic shifts in the way modern SOCs operate. In this report, you’ll discover:

• Which technologies are truly gaining traction in today’s Security Operations Centers
• What’s overhyped and what’s delivering lasting value in the SOC tech stack
• How innovations like telemetry pipelines, AI SOC agents, and NDR are lightening the load for security analysts
• What to prioritize in hybrid environments, spanning cloud, identity, and network domains

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"By 2026, 50% of SOCs will deploy AI-based decision support.” — Gartner, 2025

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Get the report to learn more about these innovation categories, the maturation of traditional technologies, and an overview of the security operations landscape.

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_{Gartner, Hype Cycle for Security Operations, 2025, Jonathan Nunez, Darren Livingstone, 3 June 2025 Gartner, Magic Quadrant for CPS Protection Platforms, Katell Thielemann, Wam Voster, Ruggero Contu, 12 February 2025GARTNER is a registered trademark and service mark of Gartner, Inc. and/or its affiliates in the U.S. and internationally, and MAGIC QUADRANT and HYPE CYCLE is a registered trademark of Gartner, Inc. and/or its affiliates and are used herein with permission. All rights reserved. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in its research publications, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest ratings or other designation. Gartner research publications consist of the opinions of Gartner’s research organization and should not be construed as statements of fact. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.}