Some Thoughts On Fixing Alert Fatigue In The SOC | Cybersecurity Blog | Grey Noise

Summary: GreyNoise founder and CEO Andrew Morris published a guest blog for IOActive titled "Cybersecurity Alert Fatigue: Why It Happens, Why It Sucks, and What We Can Do About It," arguing that alert overload spans healthcare, manufacturing, transportation, and utilities but that cybersecurity lacks better tools and insights for handling it. The post attributes the problem to vendors who sell on fear, build products that don't interoperate, focus on signal rather than noise, and price in ways that drive more alerts, alongside SOCs that pressure analysts to catch every attack in an environment where half of alerts are false positives.
Bottom line: Half of the alerts your analysts chase are false positives, and the post ties that volume directly to burnout and extremely high SOC turnover - the staffing cost lands on the same teams already under pressure to catch every attack.

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