Download the 2025 SANS SOC Survey Report

The annual SANS SOC Survey reveals how 457 security teams across 57 countries are building and managing their operations. Get data-driven insights from 9 years of industry research.

Download the 2025 SOC Survey Report

79% of SOCs operate 24/7 but 69% still rely on manual reporting
62% say their organizations aren't doing enough to retain talent
AI/ML paradox: 40% use these tools but satisfaction ranks dead last

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What You'll Learn:

Optimal SOC team size and structure benchmarks

Which technologies actually deliver value (hint: EDR wins, AI/ML loses)

Why average tenure is only 3-5 years and how to improve retention

Real incident response capabilities vs. "threat hunting" myths

Budget and resource allocation insights from your peers

Written by Christopher Crowley, 25-year security veteran and SANS Senior Instructor, this report provides the benchmarks you need to evaluate your SOC's performance and make your case for resources.

What our customers say

"We've seen a huge reduction in repetitive work. Dropzone has offloaded about 30–50% of our alert volume. That's time we can now spend threat hunting, onboarding customers, or improving coverage."

Chris DeBrunner

Vice President, Security Operations, CBTS

"No other technology has the ability to unlock an improvement in detection and response speed like Dropzone AI."

Andrew Marsh

Director, Information Security, Indiana Farm Bureau Insurance

"Simply adding more people to the team is not a scalable solution; using augmented AI to enhance your team’s capabilities is the way forward"

Kevin Turnbull

Assala Energy, Global IT Director

"Dropzone saves you and your team so much time from distracting redundant tasks that add little to no value. It gives you an accurate analysis of data sources that you would never think of looking through. The embedded AI capabilities allow you to solve critical problems that you and your team don't have the bandwidth to solve."

Chris DeBrunner

Vice President, Security Operations, CBTS

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AI/ML paradox: 40% use these tools but satisfaction ranks dead last