Inside the 2026 KuppingerCole AI SOC Leadership Compass
The Analyst View on the Market
Thursday, May 28 | 10 AM ET
KuppingerCole Analysts named Torq an Overall Leader, Product Leader, Innovation Leader, and Market Leader in the 2026 Leadership Compass: The Emerging AI SOC. The report identifies a category shift from legacy SOAR to AI-native SOC platforms.
Join analyst Matthew Gardiner and Torq’s Rick Bosworth for a live walkthrough of the findings. They’ll cover the capabilities that set Leaders apart from the field and what enterprises should prioritize when evaluating an AI SOC.
What you’ll learn:
- Why KuppingerCole shifted the category from legacy SOAR to AI SOC platforms
- An analyst breakdown of the capabilities Torq scored highest on, including behavioral detection across users, devices, and non-human identities, cloud response automation, and AI decision explainability
- Customer outcomes from teams deploying the Torq AI SOC Platform in production today, and how those outcomes line up with the analyst’s evaluation framework
Unpack the Findings
Matthew Gardiner
Fellow Analyst, KuppingerCole Analysts
Rick Bosworth
Senior Director of Product Marketing, Torq
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2026 KuppingerCole Analysts Leadership Compass: The Emerging AI SOC
Get the full evaluation framework, capability scores, and the vendor landscape, including why Torq was named a Leader in all four categories.
