Security overload is leaving admins with too much alert data to comprehend - which makes things even more dangerous

• Google Cloud survey finds even cybersecurity experts are overwhelmed by too many threat notifications
• The security field is suffering from a skills shortage, putting firms at risk
• Perhaps unsurprisingly, researchers say the answer is AI

Security professionals have long been reporting high levels of stress and burnout, which is only compounded by a skills shortage in the industry, and new research claims the sheer volume of threats, as well as the data those threats produce, is putting firms at risk.

Research from Google Cloud found threat notifications aren’t the helpful tool they could be, and in fact can be overwhelming security teams, with nearly two-thirds (61%) of security practitioners saying they think there are, ‘too many threat intelligence data feeds’, and 60% believing there are too few threat analysts to sift through the data efficiently.

“Rather than aiding efficiency, myriad [threat intelligence ...