Gartner® Hype Cycle™ for Security Operations, 2025

Why download this report?

It’s time to start planning for your next fiscal year if you haven’t already. That means strategizing implementations is happening now, and we think the Gartner® Hype Cycle™ for Security Operations, 2025, can help.

What can you find inside this report?

• A shift from new to maturing security operations technologies, even as new tech continues to emerge
• A prioritization of proactivity and scalability in SecOps tech
• A shift to unified platforms from previously disparate services
• Several key themes, including:
  • Threat exposure management
  • Threat detection, investigation & response
  • Expanding AI use cases in SecOps

Gartner, Hype Cycle for Security Operations, 2025, By Jonathan Nunez, Darren Livingstone, 23 June 2025
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