Global Security Operation Centre as a Service Market Growth (Status and Outlook) 2026-2032
Description
The global Security Operation Centre as a Service market size is predicted to grow from US$ 8263 million in 2025 to US$ 14595 million in 2032; it is expected to grow at a CAGR of 8.4% from 2026 to 2032.
Security Operation Centre as a Service is the cloud-based platform and toolset that enables a managed SOC to be delivered as a subscription, standardizing and scaling security operations with auditability. It typically provides multi-source log and telemetry ingestion and normalization, alert de-duplication/correlation and prioritization, case and ticket management, playbook (SOAR) automation, threat intelligence and hunting analytics, evidence retention and audit reporting, and operational KPI dashboards (e.g., MTTD/MTTR). It also includes multi-tenant isolation, role-based access control and SLA management, plus deep integrations with the customer’s existing stack (EDR/NDR, cloud and identity services, ITSM), allowing service providers or enterprises to deliver 24/7 security operations with lower operational overhead.
Market Development Opportunities & Main Driving Factors
With rising disclosure and governance requirements, SOCaaS is turning "24/7 monitoring–triage–response" into a subscription-based operational capability. U.S. rules require timely disclosure after a company determines a cyber incident is material, while the EU’s NIS2 reinforces staged reporting (24-hour early warning, 72-hour notification, and reporting within one month), pushing response speed and evidence trails from "emergency actions" to "always-on operations." In parallel, NIST CSF 2.0 adds the “Govern” function, elevating security operations into board-level risk governance and measurement. Combined with cloud adoption, distributed organizations, and persistent talent gaps, buyers increasingly prefer managed delivery to close capability gaps quickly, and service providers’ annual reporting highlights managed services and AI as levers to address talent shortages and scale delivery.
Market Challenges, Risks, & Restraints
The main friction lies in data, accountability, and trust. Multi-cloud and converged OT/IT environments create inconsistent telemetry standards and higher integration/governance costs, while alert noise can erode operational value. Differences in data residency, retention, access controls, and chain-of-custody requirements determine whether SOCaaS can scale in heavily regulated sectors such as financial services, public sector, and critical infrastructure. Providers must also balance cost and isolation between shared multi-tenant and dedicated environments, and clearly define execution authority and SLAs; missed detections, mishandled response, or incomplete audit trails can be amplified by external disclosure pressure and compliance accountability, quickly impacting contracts, reputation, and renewal stability.
Downstream Demand Trends
Downstream procurement is shifting from "buying tools" to "buying outcomes and auditable operations." Co-managed SOC models and tiered authorization are becoming more common, with providers handling L1/L2 operations while coordinating with in-house teams. Brokerage research also notes that data centers and cloud environments create intrinsic security demand, accelerating the penetration of SIEM, audit, and operations capabilities. Going forward, differentiation will center on multi-tenant delivery efficiency, playbook automation coverage, closed-loop KPI management (e.g., MTTD/MTTR), and deep integrations with EDR/XDR, identity, and ITSM—positioning SOCaaS as an operational backbone that supports resilience and brand trust, rather than a pure cost line.
LPI (LP Information)' newest research report, the “Security Operation Centre as a Service Industry Forecast” looks at past sales and reviews total world Security Operation Centre as a Service sales in 2025, providing a comprehensive analysis by region and market sector of projected Security Operation Centre as a Service sales for 2026 through 2032. With Security Operation Centre as a Service sales broken down by region, market sector and sub-sector, this report provides a detailed analysis in US$ millions of the world Security Operation Centre as a Service industry.
This Insight Report provides a comprehensive analysis of the global Security Operation Centre as a Service landscape and highlights key trends related to product segmentation, company formation, revenue, and market share, latest development, and M&A activity. This report also analyses the strategies of leading global companies with a focus on Security Operation Centre as a Service portfolios and capabilities, market entry strategies, market positions, and geographic footprints, to better understand these firms’ unique position in an accelerating global Security Operation Centre as a Service market.
This Insight Report evaluates the key market trends, drivers, and affecting factors shaping the global outlook for Security Operation Centre as a Service and breaks down the forecast by Type, by Application, geography, and market size to highlight emerging pockets of opportunity. With a transparent methodology based on hundreds of bottom-up qualitative and quantitative market inputs, this study forecast offers a highly nuanced view of the current state and future trajectory in the global Security Operation Centre as a Service.
This report presents a comprehensive overview, market shares, and growth opportunities of Security Operation Centre as a Service market by product type, application, key players and key regions and countries.
Segmentation by Type:
Cloud-Based
Hybrid
Segmentation by Platform Stack:
SIEM-centric SOCaaS
XDR/MDR-centric
SIEM+SOAR Integrated
Big-data Situational Awareness Platform
Segmentation by Pricing Metric:
Per Endpoint
Per GB Ingested
Per Asset
Per Alert
Others
Segmentation by Operating Model:
Multi-tenant SOC
Dedicated SOC
Regional SOC Hubs
Others
Segmentation by Application:
Financial Services
Public Sector
Manufacturing & Industrial
Healthcare
Energy & Critical Infrastructure
Others
This report also splits the market by region:
Americas
United States
Canada
Mexico
Brazil
APAC
China
Japan
Korea
Southeast Asia
India
Australia
Europe
Germany
France
UK
Italy
Russia
Middle East & Africa
Egypt
South Africa
Israel
Turkey
GCC Countries
The below companies that are profiled have been selected based on inputs gathered from primary experts and analyzing the company's coverage, product portfolio, its market penetration.
Broadcom
Fortinet
Arctic Wolf
CrowdStrike
Rapid7
Sophos
IBM
Deepwatch
Fortra
Netsurion
Proficio
CyberMaxx
Palo Alto Networks
Microsoft
Sprinto
Symantec
Alert Logic
Qualys
AT&T
BlackStratus
ESDS
Suma Soft
CyberCX
eSentire
HABOOB
Please note: The report will take approximately 2 business days to prepare and deliver.
Security Operation Centre as a Service is the cloud-based platform and toolset that enables a managed SOC to be delivered as a subscription, standardizing and scaling security operations with auditability. It typically provides multi-source log and telemetry ingestion and normalization, alert de-duplication/correlation and prioritization, case and ticket management, playbook (SOAR) automation, threat intelligence and hunting analytics, evidence retention and audit reporting, and operational KPI dashboards (e.g., MTTD/MTTR). It also includes multi-tenant isolation, role-based access control and SLA management, plus deep integrations with the customer’s existing stack (EDR/NDR, cloud and identity services, ITSM), allowing service providers or enterprises to deliver 24/7 security operations with lower operational overhead.
Market Development Opportunities & Main Driving Factors
With rising disclosure and governance requirements, SOCaaS is turning "24/7 monitoring–triage–response" into a subscription-based operational capability. U.S. rules require timely disclosure after a company determines a cyber incident is material, while the EU’s NIS2 reinforces staged reporting (24-hour early warning, 72-hour notification, and reporting within one month), pushing response speed and evidence trails from "emergency actions" to "always-on operations." In parallel, NIST CSF 2.0 adds the “Govern” function, elevating security operations into board-level risk governance and measurement. Combined with cloud adoption, distributed organizations, and persistent talent gaps, buyers increasingly prefer managed delivery to close capability gaps quickly, and service providers’ annual reporting highlights managed services and AI as levers to address talent shortages and scale delivery.
Market Challenges, Risks, & Restraints
The main friction lies in data, accountability, and trust. Multi-cloud and converged OT/IT environments create inconsistent telemetry standards and higher integration/governance costs, while alert noise can erode operational value. Differences in data residency, retention, access controls, and chain-of-custody requirements determine whether SOCaaS can scale in heavily regulated sectors such as financial services, public sector, and critical infrastructure. Providers must also balance cost and isolation between shared multi-tenant and dedicated environments, and clearly define execution authority and SLAs; missed detections, mishandled response, or incomplete audit trails can be amplified by external disclosure pressure and compliance accountability, quickly impacting contracts, reputation, and renewal stability.
Downstream Demand Trends
Downstream procurement is shifting from "buying tools" to "buying outcomes and auditable operations." Co-managed SOC models and tiered authorization are becoming more common, with providers handling L1/L2 operations while coordinating with in-house teams. Brokerage research also notes that data centers and cloud environments create intrinsic security demand, accelerating the penetration of SIEM, audit, and operations capabilities. Going forward, differentiation will center on multi-tenant delivery efficiency, playbook automation coverage, closed-loop KPI management (e.g., MTTD/MTTR), and deep integrations with EDR/XDR, identity, and ITSM—positioning SOCaaS as an operational backbone that supports resilience and brand trust, rather than a pure cost line.
LPI (LP Information)' newest research report, the “Security Operation Centre as a Service Industry Forecast” looks at past sales and reviews total world Security Operation Centre as a Service sales in 2025, providing a comprehensive analysis by region and market sector of projected Security Operation Centre as a Service sales for 2026 through 2032. With Security Operation Centre as a Service sales broken down by region, market sector and sub-sector, this report provides a detailed analysis in US$ millions of the world Security Operation Centre as a Service industry.
This Insight Report provides a comprehensive analysis of the global Security Operation Centre as a Service landscape and highlights key trends related to product segmentation, company formation, revenue, and market share, latest development, and M&A activity. This report also analyses the strategies of leading global companies with a focus on Security Operation Centre as a Service portfolios and capabilities, market entry strategies, market positions, and geographic footprints, to better understand these firms’ unique position in an accelerating global Security Operation Centre as a Service market.
This Insight Report evaluates the key market trends, drivers, and affecting factors shaping the global outlook for Security Operation Centre as a Service and breaks down the forecast by Type, by Application, geography, and market size to highlight emerging pockets of opportunity. With a transparent methodology based on hundreds of bottom-up qualitative and quantitative market inputs, this study forecast offers a highly nuanced view of the current state and future trajectory in the global Security Operation Centre as a Service.
This report presents a comprehensive overview, market shares, and growth opportunities of Security Operation Centre as a Service market by product type, application, key players and key regions and countries.
Segmentation by Type:
Cloud-Based
Hybrid
Segmentation by Platform Stack:
SIEM-centric SOCaaS
XDR/MDR-centric
SIEM+SOAR Integrated
Big-data Situational Awareness Platform
Segmentation by Pricing Metric:
Per Endpoint
Per GB Ingested
Per Asset
Per Alert
Others
Segmentation by Operating Model:
Multi-tenant SOC
Dedicated SOC
Regional SOC Hubs
Others
Segmentation by Application:
Financial Services
Public Sector
Manufacturing & Industrial
Healthcare
Energy & Critical Infrastructure
Others
This report also splits the market by region:
Americas
United States
Canada
Mexico
Brazil
APAC
China
Japan
Korea
Southeast Asia
India
Australia
Europe
Germany
France
UK
Italy
Russia
Middle East & Africa
Egypt
South Africa
Israel
Turkey
GCC Countries
The below companies that are profiled have been selected based on inputs gathered from primary experts and analyzing the company's coverage, product portfolio, its market penetration.
Broadcom
Fortinet
Arctic Wolf
CrowdStrike
Rapid7
Sophos
IBM
Deepwatch
Fortra
Netsurion
Proficio
CyberMaxx
Palo Alto Networks
Microsoft
Sprinto
Symantec
Alert Logic
Qualys
AT&T
BlackStratus
ESDS
Suma Soft
CyberCX
eSentire
HABOOB
Please note: The report will take approximately 2 business days to prepare and deliver.
Table of Contents
155 Pages
- *This is a tentative TOC and the final deliverable is subject to change.*
- 1 Scope of the Report
- 2 Executive Summary
- 3 Security Operation Centre as a Service Market Size by Player
- 4 Security Operation Centre as a Service by Region
- 5 Americas
- 6 APAC
- 7 Europe
- 8 Middle East & Africa
- 9 Market Drivers, Challenges and Trends
- 10 Global Security Operation Centre as a Service Market Forecast
- 11 Key Players Analysis
- 12 Research Findings and Conclusion
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