Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

Gamers of a certain age likely remember the video game Asteroids. You played as a little triangular spacecraft shooting at big space rocks that started traveling towards you slowly at first, then gained speed. As you revolved around trying to protect yourself by shooting them, you inevitably had to make some rapid decisions about which asteroids would harm your ship the most and which ones you could potentially ignore.

You’re standing in the grocery store, comparing the nutrition information for two different cereals. The enriched wheat bran cereal has more B12 vitamin content than your favorite sugary one. As an adult, you know that your body needs the additional vitamins in the enriched bran flakes, even if you really want that fruity, sugary hit in the morning. In security, your data needs that additional hit of nutrition so you can correlate and analyze events more effectively.

We’re all exhausted—both by the problem and by hearing about it. False positives and overwhelming alert volume have long plagued security operations. And despite years of innovation, solutions have remained elusive. Alert volume. Alert fatigue. SOC burnout. This persistent problem puts security teams in a tough position: For CISOs and SOC managers, it’s a lose-lose scenario.