Recognition comes as the global AI SOC market is projected to reach $47.1 billion by 2031
MarketsandMarkets positioned Stellar Cyber as one of the top two Progressive Companies by market share/rank. In the report’s startup and SME evaluation matrix, Stellar Cyber is placed near the top of the Progressive Companies quadrant based on market share/rank and product footprint. Progressive Companies are building market presence with strong solution portfolios, innovative offerings, and growth strategies.
AI is rapidly reshaping the SOC, and this recognition marks Stellar Cyber’s key positioning within the evolving landscape. MarketsandMarkets projects the global AI SOC market will grow from $18.1 billion in 2026 to $47.1 billion by 2031, a 21.1% compound annual growth rate, with autonomous AI agents, AI-native SOC platforms, generative AI security copilots, automated investigation, and unified security operations at the heart of that growth.
AI SOC is becoming the architecture for next-generation security operations
The research points to a shift away from fragmented, alert-centric operations toward unified AI-native platforms that bring together detection, triage, investigation, and response. Software platforms are projected to grow from $11.3 billion in 2026 to $28.6 billion in 2031, as enterprises increasingly consolidate security analytics, AI agents, investigation, and response into a common operating environment.
“Security operations is moving from a collection of tools toward an integrated operating model. That is exactly why we believe ISOC matters. By bringing detection, triage, investigation, and response together and applying the right form of AI at each stage, security teams can move faster without removing the human judgment that matters.”
— Aimei Wei, Founder and CTO, Stellar Cyber
Stellar Cyber’s Full Cycle AI approach combines machine learning, Graph ML, large language models, and agentic AI across the security operations lifecycle. Its open platform unifies SIEM, NDR/OT, ITDR/UEBA, detection, investigation, triage, and response while helping customers preserve investments in their existing security stack.
MarketsandMarkets describes Stellar Cyber as an AI-native security operations company focused on enabling a human-augmented autonomous SOC through an open, unified security operations platform. The report highlights the company’s AI-driven SIEM, Open XDR, NDR, ITDR, automated triage, AI-assisted investigation, and Multi-Layer AI™ architecture.
The broader market trends reinforce that direction. MarketsandMarkets projects alert triage and prioritization to grow at 25.2% annually, incident investigation and analysis at 24.3%, and identity and access monitoring at 24.2% from 2026 through 2031.
About Stellar Cyber:
Stellar Cyber is an open and agentic Integrated Security Operations Center (ISOC) platform, delivering Full Cycle AI-native SecOps for enterprise and MSSP security teams. Since 2015, Stellar Cyber has helped organizations illuminate the darkest corners of cybersecurity to see every threat, know what matters most, and act with speed and confidence, always with the human in the loop.
By applying the right AI to the right problem, Stellar Cyber combines machine learning, Graph ML, large language models, and agentic AI across detection, triage, investigation, and response. The result is measurable operational impact: analyst productivity improved by more than 80%, false positives reduced by over 90%, and security teams freed to focus on what matters.
Stellar Cyber’s open platform unifies SIEM, NDR/OT, ITDR/UEBA, detection, investigation, triage, response, and Multi-Layer AI™ under one platform, across on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments. Stellar Cyber is trusted by one-third of the world’s top 250 MSSPs and more than 15,000 organizations worldwide.
Learn more at stellarcyber.ai.
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