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In 2020, the SolarWinds compromise showed how far attackers can go when they look legitimate. Instead of breaking in loudly, threat actors tampered with trusted software updates and gained access that appeared routine to many defenses. The U.S. government later assessed that roughly 18,000 customers installed affected Orion updates, and a smaller subset experienced follow-on intrusion activity, often discovered only after time had passed.

For many organizations, the challenge isn't a lack of security tools, it’s the overwhelming "noise" those tools create. When your team is sifting through 12 million events per day, they are not doing anything else and are likely having tremendous difficulty finding threats. LevelBlue Managed Detection and Response (MDR) is an industry-leading service operated by the world’s largest pure-play Managed Security Services Provider (MSS) that will change that narrative.

See how Torq harnesses AI in your SOC to detect, prioritize, and respond to threats faster. Request a Demo Your SOC received 10,000 alerts yesterday. How many were real threats? Most SOC teams operate in a constant state of triage. Alerts pour in from dozens of tools, each one demanding attention, each one potentially critical. The reality? Your analysts are making high-stakes decisions about which alerts to investigate based on gut instinct and whatever time they have left in their shift.

When alerts flood in at 2 a.m., your team shouldn't have to guess whether it's a critical failure or another false alarm. That uncertainty is what causes alert fatigue, a systematic problem that leads to slower response times, team burnout, and missed incidents. Fortunately, there's a solution: By replacing noisy, traditional methods with smart alert management, you can turn a flood of alerts into a stream of actionable insight.

In every security operation, time and clarity are the most limited resources. Analysts do not fail because they lack alerts; they fail because they are forced to connect dots that never form a complete picture. When visibility is fragmented, every alert appears urgent, and priorities become blurred. This is where the idea of endpoint security efficiency becomes transformative.