Voice of SecOps 2025
Promises, Pitfalls – and Prevention Paradise
AI is at the forefront of innovation for both attackers and defenders. While criminals use Dark AI to generate and launch attacks faster than ever, organizations are working to integrate AI into their security arsenals. Explore the latest Voice of SecOps report to discover expert insights on the following:
- New AI Threats: Phishing and Deepfakes Empowered
- Tool or Trouble: New AI Capabilities in the Workplace
- Preparing for Prevention: Integrating Preemptive Security
- Emerging Tech: Quantum Computing and Hardware-Based Threats
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What are SecOps Reports?
The ever-evolving threat landscape is impacting SecOps professionals.
SecOps teams are scrambling every day to keep their organizations safe. Read our Voice of SecOps Reports to learn what 500+ global senior cybersecurity professionals from 1000+ employee companies across seven core verticals think about current and emerging risks to their teams.
2024 Past Report
Voice of SecOps, 5th Edition
The fifth edition of the Voice of SecOps report examines new capabilities of generative AI and their effects on cybersecurity and SecOps professionals. Discover how the industry is working to quickly research and implement new AI solutions to combat a rising tide of AI-powered cybercrime. Explore which attacks are most dangerous and which legacy tools are becoming obsolete. Finally, learn how stress and burnout rates among SecOps professionals continue to rise, despite the introduction of new AI solutions designed to alleviate their workload.
2023 Past Report
Voice of SecOps, 4th Edition
This report examines the role of generative AI in cybersecurity, addressing both its potential and its risks. Discover critical insights into the challenges posed by AI-powered threats, the resurgence of ransomware, the shortcomings of relying on Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) tools, and the shifting industry focus toward preventative cybersecurity strategies. This report also highlights the trend of increasing stress and burnout among SecOps professionals and the role of AI as both a cause and potential solution.
2022 Past Report
Voice of SecOps, 3rd Edition
This report explores the key stressors in the SecOps community, including the potential for an industry “Great Resignation.” Learn about pressures faced by today’s SecOps teams and CISOs, including securing a remote workforce, ongoing ransomware issues post-payment, dealing with alert fatigue, and the myth and folly of believing that existing tools can stop today’s increasingly advanced threats.
2021 Past Report
Voice of SecOps, 2nd Edition
This report explores perceptions on the ability to prevent malware from infiltrating an organization’s network—both currently, as well as in a few years’ time. Many of the responses are reflective of a general state of pessimism around the capabilities of established technologies to cope with new threats.
2021 Past Report
Voice of SecOps, 1st Edition
This report explores strategic threats, overarching priorities and day-to-day challenges that often go unheard. To that end, other key findings from US respondents look at the rise in ransomware attacks, as well as other prevalent threats and factors impacting SecOps teams’ ability to prevent attacks.
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