Security teams are overwhelmed
by alerts
Today's security systems generate too many alerts, making it difficult for teams to identify and respond to actual threats in a timely manner. Most enterprises receive over 10,000 security alerts daily and 25% of security teams have to deal with more that 1 million alerts every single day. Analysts then spend 10 - 20 minutes investigating each incident they receive, and much of that time is spent downgrading alerts incorrectly marked as critical or misprioritized.
Eventually, approximately a third of all cybersecurity alerts are determined to be false positives, leading to a huge waste of resources to investigate problems that don’t actually exist. Alert overload can quickly cause major problems such as high staff turnover, low productivity and financial loss.
10,000 alerts
Most enterprises receive over 10,000 alerts per day
100,000 alerts
60% of banks can see up to 100,000 alerts per day
1,000,000 alerts
Over a quarter of security teams have to deal with more than 1 million alerts per day
Sources: Imperva research, McAfee
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