Gartner®, SOC of 2030: Chart Your Journey to an Agentic Security Operations Center

AI is changing the pace of attacks. Adversaries can now move from a vulnerability announcement to a working exploit in minutes, and security operations leaders are rethinking how their teams detect, investigate, and respond at that speed.

Security operations teams must prepare for the agentic era of attacks and be ready to defend at machine speed. Gartner outlines the steps to transform the SOC for AI readiness and build an agentic security operations center (A-SOC): establish AI foundations, trial augmented operations, and enact agentic operations.

This report explores:

• A staged implementation guide, from preplanning through agentic operations

• How organizational structure, AI control, and data and controls evolve at each stage

• New metrics for measuring security operations performance at machine speed

• The AI orchestration layers that support autonomous workflows

• How to build internal justification and consensus for SOC transformation

GARTNER is a trademark of Gartner, Inc. and/or its affiliates. Gartner, SOC of 2030: Chart Your Journey to an Agentic Security Operations Center (A-SOC), Eric Ahlm, Kevin Schmidt, Jonathan Nunez, 15 October 2026.