Alert Fatigue Isn’t Just a SOC Problem; It’s a Business Risk

Sometimes we get so stuck in the weeds that we forget to apply normal common sense, especially to heady cybersecurity principles.

Luckily, this one isn’t so heady: it’s just so obvious that we don’t see it anymore. We’re talking about alert fatigue, and why more companies don’t start there instead of levying hefty investments downstream to fix what should have been a simple upstream problem.

Root-cause noise is the primary driver of analyst overload, and downstream triage cannot solve what upstream signal design breaks. But fixing those problems requires knowing what’s going wrong, and what right looks like.

As AI SOC Platform company Prophet Security states, “Reducing alert fatigue is a cross discipline effort. You need clean detections, reliable data, a crisp workflow, strong feedback loops, and metrics that guide decisions.”

Why Does Alert Fatigue Happen, Anyway?

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