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AI has radically transformed the way SOC teams operate, but how is it affecting the people behind the work? For our recent Voice of Security 2026 report, we surveyed over 1,800 global security professionals to find out. We wanted to understand not only AI’s impact on security careers, but how teams really feel about these shifts. The results show that despite rising workloads and widespread burnout across security teams, sentiment toward AI is largely positive.

This article was written by experts from Amoeboids. 84% of developers currently use or intend to use AI in their daily workflows, showing that AI is no longer optional; it is necessary. Yet, one area still stuck in the manual era is release communication. Release notes, once a simple wrap-up task, are now struggling to keep up with weekly and daily deployments.

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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.

Most SOC teams don’t struggle with what they need to automate — they struggle with where to start. Between complex playbooks, brittle integrations, and the fear of breaking something in production, security orchestration, automation, and response (SOAR) often feels harder to adopt than it should be.