Cybersecurity Teams Embrace AI, Just Not at the Scale Marketing Suggests

**Sumo Logic’s 2026 Security Operations Insights** report finds 96% of security leaders have adopted AI/ML and most see clear value—especially in reducing alert fatigue and improving detection accuracy—but real-world usage remains basic (threat detection, automated response, anomaly detection, incident triage). Leaders also report inflated, fragmented tool stacks, partial alignment between security and DevOps on observability, and a gap between rapidly evolving application environments and security tooling readiness; the findings are based on an October 2025 survey of 506 leaders and practitioners from organizations with 500+ employees.