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The AI SOC has arrived. According to the 2026 AI SOC Leadership Report, 94% of organizations are using AI in the SOC in some capacity. The question in 2026 is no longer whether to adopt AI-driven SOC automation, but rather how to do so. Is the architecture behind that adoption actually working?

Alert volumes are higher than ever. Client budgets are not. For managed security service providers, that math doesn’t work and no amount of hiring will fix it.

Security operations often feel like a paradox: a discipline built on high-speed decision-making wrapped inside layers of noisy, inconsistent data. Every alert has some useful and not so useful noise, but only a few truly matter. Our job is to know the difference. For us, Tines became the medium through which the noise resolved into signal.

See how Torq harnesses AI in your SOC to detect, prioritize, and respond to threats faster. Request a Demo John White is the Field CISO for EMEA at Torq. A respected security executive with more than 20 years of leadership experience, John previously served as CISO at Virgin Atlantic, where he led a multi-year transformation deploying the Torq AI SOC Platform to modernize cyber operations.

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See how Torq harnesses AI in your SOC to detect, prioritize, and respond to threats faster. Request a Demo I recently sat between two people who think about the AI SOC operations from completely different angles — and spent 50 minutes watching them land in the same place.

See how Torq harnesses AI in your SOC to detect, prioritize, and respond to threats faster. Request a Demo When we started building Torq four years ago, we had a thesis: the SOC was broken, and automation — real automation, not another tool bolted onto the stack — was the way to fix it. AI has since changed the game entirely. But has it streamlined the SOC, or introduced new complexity? We wanted to find out.

For managed security service providers (MSSPs), alert fatigue doesn’t just burn out your analysts: it’s a real risk to your business. From the financial costs of missed SLAs and security incidents to the customer trust lost when critical alerts are overlooked, alert fatigue negatively impacts customer outcomes, client retention, and your profitability.

For managed security service providers (MSSPs), customer loyalty is the most critical indicator of business health. Unlike other metrics that you directly control, such as mean time to respond or mean time to detect, it can’t be gamed: customers will either stay with you or they’ll churn. This means that the top priority for any MSSP should be to deliver the specific customer outcomes they were hired to provide, like helping to stop threat actors before they cause damage.