GigaOm Names Torq Leader in SecOps Automation

The 2025 GigaOm Radar Report for SecOps Automation has named Torq a Leader and Fast Mover. The category’s shift this year away from SOAR to SecOps Automation confirms what SOC leaders already know, and Torq has been saying for years: Legacy SOAR is done. Too rigid, too slow, and too fragile, SOAR can’t keep up with today’s adversaries. 

Purpose-built for speed, scale, and safe autonomy, Torq HyperSOC™ is the solution closest to the high-value bullseye of GigaOm’s SecOps Automation Radar. The GigaOm report validates what our customers prove daily: Torq is helping set the pace for SecOps automation.

SOAR Is Dead — And We Were the First to Say It

When Torq declared “SOAR is dead”, it wasn’t just a marketing tagline — it was a reality check. Legacy SOAR platforms were never designed for the scale, complexity, or speed of modern SOC operations. They rely on brittle playbooks, endless scripting, and rigid integrations that collapse under today’s machine-speed adversaries.

For years, vendors tried to rebrand SOAR, but the cracks were obvious:

• Too slow to keep up with modern attack timelines.
• Too code-heavy for teams already stretched thin.
• Too limited to unify security, IT, and business operations.

The 2025 GigaOm Radar for SecOps Automation is the clearest signal yet: the market has officially moved on. What once fell under SOAR is now evaluated through the lens of SecOps automation — end-to-end, AI-driven workflows that unify the SOC and deliver automated triage, investigation, and response at scale.

Why Torq Stood Out in the GigaOm Radar

For the past three years, Torq Hyperautomation outperformed legacy SOAR on the GigaOm SOAR Radar. With GigaOm now evolving the category to SecOps Automation, Torq once again ranks closest to the bullseye.

The Torq platform stood out in GigaOm’s 2025 Radar for its ability to combine no-code, low-code workflows with extensive integrations across the modern SOC stack and advanced case management. Analysts highlighted Torq’s strengths in key areas:

• Case management and collaboration: An area where Torq earned a top score, with a built-in case management system, seamless integrations with ServiceNow, Jira, Zendesk, Slack, Teams, and Webex, plus virtual war rooms and role-based access controls to keep security, IT, engineering, and business teams aligned.
• SIEM and SDL integrations: Torq consolidates multiple signals across assets, teams, and timeframes into enriched, prioritized events. With deterministic filtering and anomaly detection integrations, SOCs can cut through noise and accelerate investigations.
• Red teaming and validation: Every workflow can be safely tested and validated in staging before production. Audit trails, version control, and deterministic outcomes ensure responsible deployment and compliance-ready automation.
• Future-ready architecture: GigaOm highlights architecture as the top decision factor in SecOps automation. Torq’s multi-agent, event-driven design combines the predictability of deterministic workflows with the power of LLMs — delivering autonomy that adapts to real-world complexity.
• AI agent guardrails: GigaOm gave Torq a perfect 5 in AI Agent Guardrails, validating what enterprises already trust us to deliver: safe, scalable AI for the SOC. Every Torq decision is explainable, auditable, and transparent, with built-in governance frameworks that ensure accuracy, compliance, and accountability. From human-in-the-loop workflows and override mechanisms to zero-trust AI architecture with continuous monitoring, Torq is built for enterprise-grade safety. 

Why This Matters for Security Leaders

Today’s SOC leaders face three hard realities:

1. Alert volume keeps climbing. The average enterprise SOC receives tens of thousands daily alerts, of which at least 30% are never investigated.
2. Analyst headcount isn’t keeping up. A 4.76 million-person global cybersecurity talent shortage leaves SOCs chronically understaffed.
3. Adversaries are moving faster than ever. Breakout time has shrunk to 48 minutes on average — with some intrusions moving laterally in under a minute.

Legacy tools are slowing SOCs down. Torq addresses these challenges head-on with automation built for speed, scale, and resilience.

Unified SOC operations: Case-first automation, 300+ integrations, and end-to-end workflows break down silos and align security, IT, and business teams.

Autonomy at scale: Torq auto-remediates more than 90% of Tier-1 tasks and slashes investigation times from auto-triage to full case resolution.

Enterprise-grade trust: AI guardrails, built-in governance, and continuous validation ensure autonomy is safe, reliable, and audit-ready.

And the results speak for themselves:

• Cut MTTR by at least 75% with autonomous triage, enrichment, and case resolution
• Automate 90%+ of Tier-1 tasks, eliminating the repetitive tasks that burn out analysts
• 10× faster response times across critical use cases like phishing, credential compromise, and malware investigations
• 80%+ reduction in alert fatigue, enabling analysts to focus on higher-value threat hunting and detection engineering
• 50% decrease in average cost per incident through Hyperautomation
• 4× more alerts handled with the same size team
• 35% reduction in the probability of a major breach

“Torq HyperSOC offers unprecedented protection and drives extraordinary efficiency for [our company] and our customers.”

– Todd Willoughby, Director, RSM Defense

Get the GigaOm Radar for SecOps Automation

The verdict: The future of SecOps automation belongs to platforms that deliver SOC autonomy at scale. Torq HyperSOC™ is the only platform built to unify the SOC, automate at enterprise scale, and deliver autonomy with the governance and trust today’s leaders demand. That’s why customers, MSSPs, and analysts agree: Torq is setting the pace for the modern autonomous SOC.

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