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The AI SOC Market Landscape 2025
This report is the essential guide for CISOs navigating the 2025 AI SOC landscape. It provides clear architectural roadmaps and strategic frameworks to simplify vendor evaluation.
Our analysis maps market leaders to your team’s maturity level and outlines a practical, staged rollout plan. This strategy prioritizes governance and measurable automation, providing a clear path to building a modern, AI-driven security operation.
The Microsoft Super Security Platform
Market Analysis
Our latest report dissects Microsoft’s strategy to become the default security “super platform” for the enterprise, consolidating the SOC around its native tooling.
We provide a clear-eyed analysis of what this means for CISOs’ budgets, vendor strategy, and the future of the security ecosystem.
Shaping the Future of the SOC at Black Hat 2025
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Join us for an exclusive, vendor-neutral dinner during Black Hat 2025, where leaders in security operations will gather to explore and shape the future of the SOC.
This event is designed for senior SOC leaders to connect, reflect on shared challenges, and discuss emerging strategies for the evolution of security operations.
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Emerging Cybersecurity Research
Join us for a morning of great food and even better company at the Cyber Founders Breakfast — a casual, high-impact gathering of cybersecurity
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Cloud & Application Security
- NHI: Non-Human Identities
- IAM: Identity and Access Management
- PAM: Privileged Access Management

Data and AI Security
- DSPM: Data Security Posture Management
- Security for AI/LLM: Security for Artificial Intelligence / Large Language Models
- DLP: Data Loss Prevention

Identity & Network Security
- CNAPP: Cloud-Native Application Protection Platform
- ASPM: Application Security Posture Management

Security Operations Center
- ETL data pipeline, routing and threat intelligence.
- SIEMs/Data Lakes infrastructure
- Next-Gen SOAR & AI Automation
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Software Analyst Cybersecurity Research (SACR) is a modern analyst firm for the modern security industry.
We work with CISOs, founders, and security teams to bring clarity to complex categories, through independent research, strategic insight, and high trust conversations.
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Our reports are organized into five focused areas, so you can quickly find expert insights and practical guidance tailored to each domain.
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