"A comprehensive survey of 282 security leaders at companies across industries reveals a stark reality facing modern Security Operations Centers: alert volumes have reached unsustainable levels, forcing teams to leave critical threats uninvestigated. You can download the full report here. The research, conducted primarily among US-based organizations, shows that AI adoption in security operations has shifted from experimental to essential as teams struggle to keep pace with an ever-growing stream of security alerts."
"Security teams are drowning in alerts, with organizations processing an average of 960 alerts per day. Large enterprises face an even more daunting reality, handling over 3,000 daily alerts from an average of 30 different alert-generating security tools. This volume creates a fundamental operational crisis where security teams must make difficult detection and investigation decisions under extreme time pressure. The survey reveals that alert fatigue has evolved beyond an emotional burden to become a measurable operational risk."
"The sheer mathematics of alert processing exposes the problem's scale. The survey results revealed that it takes an average of 70 minutes to fully investigate an alert, that is, if someone can find the time to look at it. According to the survey, a full 56 minutes pass on average before anyone acts on an alert. This impossibility forces difficult choices about which alerts receive attention and which get ignored."
Alert volumes have reached unsustainable levels, with organizations averaging 960 alerts per day and large enterprises handling over 3,000 daily alerts from roughly 30 different alert-generating tools. Security teams face operational crises that force prioritization of investigations and leave critical threats uninvestigated. Average investigation time is about 70 minutes, and average time to first action is 56 minutes, creating delays that exacerbate risk. Alert fatigue has moved from emotional burnout to measurable operational risk. AI is increasingly used for triage, detection engineering, and threat hunting to accelerate investigations and manage alert overload.
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