AI Streamlines SOC Workflows and Reduces Backlogs

Anvilogic's Monte Says Structured Data and Automation Cut Alert Fatigue and Costs Michael Novinson (MichaelNovinson) • December 8, 2025

SOC teams face mounting pressure as business environments expand and attackers rapidly shift tactics. Michael Monte, vice president of sales engineering and customer success at Anvilogic, said cloud growth and rising data volumes intensified manual workloads, slowed detection engineering and increased alert fatigue.

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Relying on a single SIEM for centralized storage raised costs and reduced flexibility, he said. Moving high-volume logs to a data lake while unifying analytics with the SIEM created a more efficient architecture. This approach improved search performance, strengthened visibility and reduced storage spending by more than 90%.

AI-driven tuning, he said, reduced noise by feeding triage outcomes back into rules, which helped maintain alert quality and shrink backlogs. "When you're manually tuning rules, you're ...