Ingesting data in the security world is only half of the battle. The second half is fought over insight generation. As security professionals, we understand that every second we spend creating dashboards, alerts, or parsing rules is a potential window of vulnerability, assuming this capability even exists within the organization.
Why do 67% of SOC analysts feel like a new job or even a new career sounds like a good idea right now? The reason: alerts. Or, to be more specific, the fact that the time it takes for SOC analysts to deal with security alerts and tickets exceeds the amount of time they have available. The name for this phenomenon is alert fatigue.
In the realm of cybersecurity, Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) systems are indispensable tools for monitoring and analyzing an organization’s security posture in real-time. However, one of the hurdles that security professionals often encounter is the prevalence of false positives which can overwhelm analysts and obscure genuine threats.
From phishing to ransomware and malware to Man-in-the-Middle (MitM) attacks, cybersecurity threats are prevalent for both large corporations and small businesses alike.