{"data":{"id":"e9723727-cf98-41b7-8bd2-077cd3e024b5","title":"Gartner Predicts SOCs Will Have 50% More Engineers Than Analysts by 2028","summary":"Gartner's 2026 report The Roles Required for the AI-Enabled Security Operations Center (SOC), by analyst Pete Shoard, predicts that by 2028 SOCs will have 50% more engineers than analysts as AI agents take over routine alert handling. The report says AI SOC agents already cut alert-handling work significantly for common and traditional detection use cases, and it argues analysts will shift from triage to end-to-end case ownership. Prophet Security's 2026 survey of more than 250 respondents found 57% expect team size to stay the same and 9% expect it to grow.","solution":"N/A -- no mitigation discussed in source.","labels":["industry","policy"],"sourceUrl":"https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/gartner-predicts-socs-will-have-50-percent-more-engineers-than-analysts-by-2028/","publishedAt":"2026-11-03T15:00:10.000Z","cveId":null,"cweIds":null,"cvssScore":null,"cvssSeverity":null,"severity":"info","attackType":[],"issueType":"news","affectedPackages":null,"affectedPackageNames":null,"affectedPackageRefs":null,"affectedVendors":[],"affectedVendorsRaw":["AI SOC agents","Prophet Security"],"classifierModel":"claude-haiku-5-5","classifierPromptVersion":"v4","summaryPromptVersion":"v2","headline":null,"headlinePromptVersion":null,"cvssVector":null,"attackVector":null,"attackComplexity":null,"privilegesRequired":null,"userInteraction":null,"exploitMaturity":null,"epssScore":null,"epssCheckedAt":null,"kevDateAdded":null,"advisoryAliases":null,"affectedPackagesSource":null,"affectedPackagesCheckedAt":null,"patchAvailable":null,"disclosureDate":"2026-11-03T15:00:10.000Z","fixReleasedAt":null,"daysToFix":null,"fixCheckedAt":null,"capecIds":null,"crossRefCount":0,"attackSophistication":"moderate","impactType":null,"aiComponentTargeted":null,"llmSpecific":false,"classifierConfidence":0.8,"researchCategory":null,"atlasIds":null}}