A Practitioner’s Guide to Thriving in the Autonomous SOC

The retail industry is undergoing a radical transformation, with 75% of organizations accelerating reinvention efforts to meet evolving consumer demands. This digital shift has expanded the attack surface across cloud, IoT, and supply chain dependencies, while 91% of retail leaders acknowledge that GenAI is rapidly increasing the sophistication—and impact—of cyber threats. Consequently, traditional, manual security operations have reached a breaking point; nearly half of retail security teams are currently unable to investigate more than 50% of daily alerts, creating a dangerous capacity gap that extends attacker dwell time and leaves organizations vulnerable to ransomware and business-critical outages.