AI in the SOC: Where Security Teams Stand
Elastic, Wednesday, November 4th, 2026
An Elastic-sponsored survey of 400+ SOC professionals finds near-universal AI benefits alongside widespread negative impacts.
Elastic discusses its AI Adoption in the SOC report, conducted by Dimensional Research with more than 400 security operations professionals at companies with over 500 employees.
96% of teams use AI and 99.8% report benefits, led by faster investigations (61%), improved security posture (53%), better detection quality (48%) and analyst time savings (46%).
However, 85% also report negative impacts.
75% use general chatbots such as ChatGPT, Claude or Copilot versus 66% using native AI in security tools, often for cost and token reasons, which Elastic says recreates the swivel-chair problem.