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SOAR is Dead. Here's What Replaces It in 2026.

When SOAR emerged around 2015, it was trying to solve a real problem: SOC analysts were drowning in manual, repetitive tasks across disconnected tools. SOAR promised to connect those tools, automate the workflows between them, and give analysts their time back. For a while, it mostly delivered. That era is long dead.

SOAR vs. AI SOC: The Category That Left SOAR Behind

If you’ve been in security operations for more than a few years, you’ve lived through the automation hype cycle at least twice. First, it was SIEM that was going to solve everything. Then SOAR was supposed to fix what SIEM couldn’t. Now, AI SOC platforms are delivering what SOAR always promised but never actually could.