Evaluate Your Security Maturity
Take this quiz to assess how modern, connected and resilient your security operations are — and how well it supports faster detection, smarter response and reduced operational burden.*
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How integrated would you describe your security operations workflows across detection, investigation and response?
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Highly integrated Alerts, telemetry and response actions are centralized, correlated and automated across our SOC.
Partially integrated Some tools and workflows are connected, but investigations and response still require manual handoffs.
Siloed Detection, investigation and response are handled in separate tools with limited orchestration or automation.
Alerts, telemetry and response actions are centralized, correlated and automated across our SOC.
Highly Integrated
Organizations with integrated detection, investigation and response workflows reduce alert fatigue, accelerate containment and improve analyst efficiency. Continue advancing your SOC by extending automation and intelligence across all security domains.
Security teams and their tools detected 50% of breaches:
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2025
Source: Cost of a Data Breach Report 2025
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Partial integration is a strong foundation, but manual handoffs and fragmented workflows can slow response and increase risk. Modern SOCs benefit from centralized visibility and orchestrated response.
Good
Siloed workflows increase investigation time, analyst burnout and dwell time. SecOps modernization starts with connecting tools, data and response actions into a unified operating model.
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Does your organization have a cyber insurance policy?
Highly integrated
Partially integrated
As the cyber insurance market continues to shift, cyber insurance should remain part of your overall risk management approach. Many cyber insurance companies are looking for organizations with managed and co-managed security solutions in place as they assess rates for attainment and/or renewal cycles.
According to Optiv and Ponemon's 2025 Cybersecurity Threat and Risk Management Report respondents say their organizations:
Have cybersecurity insurance – 35%
Plan to purchase cybersecurity insurance – 43%
Cyber insurance, once a “nice to have,” is now a “must have” to operate a business and should be part of your overall risk management approach. Prioritize obtaining cyber insurance as soon as possible.
Have cybersecurity insurance
Plan to purchase cybersecurity insurance
According to data from Optiv and Ponemon's 2025 Cybersecurity Threat and Risk Management Report, respondents say their organizations:
Question 2 of 6
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Approximately how many security tools do you have in your tech stack?
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Many organizations employ too many tools, making it easy to lose track of what unique value each tool provides, leading to overspending and complexity.
Organizations surveyed in Optiv and Ponemon's 2025 Cybersecurity Threat and Risk Management Report have an average of 55 separate cybersecurity technologies.
of respondents say their organizations have too many cybersecurity tools to be able to achieve a strong cybersecurity posture
See how to jumpstart your journey to evaluating and optimizing your existing cybersecurity tool stack with Optiv’s technology consolidation and rationalization starter kit.
Many organizations employ too many tools, making it easy to lose track of what unique value each tool provides, leading to overspending and complexity. See how to jumpstart your journey to evaluating and optimizing your existing cybersecurity tool stack with Optiv’s technology consolidation and rationalization starter kit.
Question 3 of 6
In the last 3 months
3-12 months ago
When was the last time your organization experienced a disruptive attack?
More than 12 months ago
Organizations with managed security services or managed detection and response solutions experience fewer cyber incidents.
According to Optiv and Ponemon's 2025 Cybersecurity Threat and Risk Management Report:
of organizations report that cybersecurity incidents increased in the past year
Find out how managed security services can elevate your cybersecurity security program.
We can help. Reach out to our experts today for incident response support and a path to reduce the risks of future incidents.
Organizations with managed security services or managed detection and response solutions experience fewer cyber incidents. Find out how managed security services can elevate your cybersecurity security program.
How is your organization embracing next-generation technology capabilities such as AI and SOAR?
Actively embracing We are integrating next-gen capabilities across our organization.
Somewhat tentative We are open to it, but unsure how to effectively fully embrace these capabilities.
Resistant Due to internal expertise/bandwidth, we don’t plan on embracing these tech capabilities soon.
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Some tools and workflows are connected, but investigations and response still require manual handoffs.
Detection, investigation and response are handled in separate tools with limited orchestration or automation.
Siloed
AI-powered analytics provide comprehensive insights into your environment, and leading SOAR technology reduces time to respond and enables defined outcomes. But AI without strong governance increases your risk. Treat AI governance as integral to your security operations program.
Organizations with extensive use of security AI and automation were
faster at identifying and containing a data breach than organizations with no use of security AI and automation
Hiring/retaining security talent How AI is rapidly expanding risk and the attack surface The increasing sophistication of threat actors
Not very concerned We have the tools and talent we need to effectively run our SecOps program.
Somewhat concerned We often deal with these challenges.
Very concerned We are not equipped with the tools and talent we need to effectively face these challenges.
How concerned is your organization with these top SecOps challenges:
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Actively embracing
We are open to it, but unsure how to effectively fully embrace these capabilities.
Somewhat tentative
Due to internal expertise/bandwidth, we don’t plan on embracing these tech capabilities soon.
Resistant
As the attack surface and threat actors continue to evolve, ensuring that hiring and retaining top talent remains a budget priority is essential.
Security leaders surveyed in 2025 Security Operations Trends Report responded that they:
Experienced an incident relating to internal AI tools
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85%
Believe the greater risk is being overwhelmed by threats due to lack of automation
Without hiring and retaining the right security talent, your organization will face greater opposition with the expanding attack surface and sophisticated threat actors. Effectively budgeting for talent is the foundation for dealing with these challenges.
Love to see it! It looks like your SecOps program is well positioned to protect against threats and further your business goals. Our experts are always available to help you continue to enhance security maturity while increasing efficiencies and lowering costs.
Maturity Level:
Your recommendations: Continue to be proactive by implementing integration across all security domains, people, processes and technologies to identify new and unforeseen threats. Make automation a priority by leveraging always-on and always-learning technologies that adapt to new threats and unlock future capabilities and insights. Leverage agentic AI for proactive threat hunting and collaborative investigation. Increase resilience by applying comprehensive detection, response and platform management to reduce operational overhead and increase efficiency across overall framework.
Not bad! You are on the right track for building a proactive and mature SecOps program. We can help you fill in the gaps to enhance your security maturity.
Your recommendations: Employ active defense strategies that use strategic, operational and tactical intelligence from internal and external sources. Make automation a priority by implementing SOAR and agentic AI to continually measure the efficacy of people, processes, controls, and extend threat hunting and investigation capabilities. Stay future-ready by partnering with an end-to-end security solutions provider that allows you to continuously extend the capabilities of your people, processes and technologies.
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Increasing your security maturity takes time and effort. We understand the challenges, and help organizations like yours evolve their security programs to ensure they are managing risk to secure business outcomes.
Your recommendations: Analyze your on-going operations to determine your organization’s current state, strengths, weaknesses and gaps, while looking through the lenses of people, processes and technologies. Opt for integration by replacing one-off solutions with technologies designed to integrate together and those that use strategic, operational and tactical intelligence from internal and external sources. Optimize detection and response capabilities continuously to reduce noise, attack surface and dwell time. Explore how partnering with an end-to-end security solutions provider can drive SecOps maturity through tailored processes, expert support and a future-focused operating model that maximizes value and drives better business outcomes.
Optiv MDR is an integrative detection and response platform backed by Optiv’s proprietary data and detection engineering, SOAR, agentic AI and lightning-fast log analysis designed around your unique security stack to achieve your unique business goals. Optiv provides both the MDR technology and service — from data ingestion, processing, storage, detection and response actions to expert advice and recommendations to equip organizations for modernized, more effective security operations centers (SOCs).
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