Safety Groups Embrace AI, Simply Not on the Scale Advertising and marketing Suggests

Safety leaders are seeing the advantages of AI in safety operations, however not on the scale distributors declare, in keeping with a brand new research by Sumo Logic.

In its 2026 Security Operations Insights report, printed on January 28, the cloud SIEM supplier discovered that 96% of surveyed safety leaders stated they’ve adopted AI and machine studying (ML).

Of those, 90% imagine AI is efficacious in decreasing alert fatigue and enhancing detection accuracy and nearly half (49%) stated it’s “extraordinarily” priceless.

However, the Sumo Logic research confirmed that the satan is within the particulars: regardless of this seemingly widespread adoption of AI for safety operations, respondents solely talked about what the cybersecurity agency described as “comparatively fundamental AI use circumstances.”

These included AI/ML for menace detection, which 49% of safety leaders talked about as their prime use of AI in safety operations, automated response (20%), anomaly detection (17%) and incident triage (9%).

“This contradicts the advertising narratives that counsel most safety leaders have broadly adopted AI all through their safety and cloud operations workflows,” the report stated.

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Safety Leaders Blame Inflated Safety Tech Stacks

The Sumo Logic report additionally confirmed that, whereas most organizations are modernizing their know-how ecosystems  – an effort largely pushed by cloud adoption – safety leaders have many contentious factors concerning their safety tech stack.

As an illustration, over half of respondents (55%) estimate they’ve too many level options of their safety stack, with 93% of organizations utilizing a minimum of three safety operations instruments and 45% utilizing six or extra.

Moreover, 80% of respondents stated their safety and DevOps groups use shared observability instruments, however solely 45% stated the 2 groups are very aligned on tooling and workflows.

Total, the Sumo Logic research discovered that almost all organizations are experiencing speedy change of their software environments, but solely 37% of the safety leaders surveyed strongly agree that their safety tooling is designed for these environments.

Sumo Logic’s 2026 Safety Operations Insights report was in-built collaboration with UserEvidence, which performed a survey of 506 safety leaders and practitioners in October 2025, making certain a vendor-neutral pattern. Respondents included 81% safety managers or administrators (31% managers, 21% administrators) and 19% practitioners, all from organizations with over 500 staff – primarily mid-sized (40% with 500-999 staff, 31% with 1000-4999). Most (72%) labored in IT, with smaller shares in manufacturing, monetary providers, healthcare and different industries.