Within the SoC as a service market, Co-managed held the leading position in 2025 with a 58.8% share, reflecting strong demand from organizations that want external security operations support while retaining internal oversight and decision-making authority. This model remains dominant because it fits practical enterprise operating realities: many businesses already have in-house security teams but need broader monitoring coverage, specialist expertise, and faster triage without fully handing over control of incident workflows. The Co-managed approach also aligns well with firms that must integrate outsourced monitoring into established governance, compliance, and internal escalation structures, which helps sustain its share in the SoC as a service market.

Fully Managed is the fastest-growing offering in the SoC as a service market as more organizations seek a simpler operating model for round-the-clock threat monitoring and response. Its momentum is being driven by the practical difficulty of building and maintaining internal security operations capacity, especially when skilled personnel are limited and alert volumes continue to rise. Compared with Co-managed arrangements, Fully Managed services reduce the day-to-day burden on internal teams and provide a more complete outsourced security function, making them increasingly attractive for businesses that prioritize rapid deployment and operational continuity.

Service Segment Analysis: Incident Response Services (Largest Segment) vs Prevention Services (Fastest-Growing Segment)

By 2025, Incident Response Services accounted for the largest share of the SoC as a service market at 44.52% share, supported by the immediate operational need to identify, contain, and remediate security events once threats are detected. Organizations continue to prioritize this service because response capability has direct consequences for downtime, business disruption, and recovery costs, making it a core requirement in outsourced security operations. The leading position of Incident Response Services in the SoC as a service market is therefore sustained by their central role in handling active incidents and supporting resilience when attacks occur.

Prevention Services are seeing the fastest growth in the SoC as a service market as buyers place greater emphasis on reducing exposure before incidents escalate into costly disruptions. Their acceleration is tied to a shift toward earlier threat mitigation, where continuous monitoring insights are increasingly used to strengthen controls, close vulnerabilities, and improve security posture in advance of attacks. Relative to response-focused services, Prevention Services are gaining momentum because they help organizations lower operational pressure on downstream incident handling while supporting a more proactive security model.