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Study: SOC employees complain about overload

Study: More than half of SOC employees complain that work has had a negative impact on their personal lives. New Trend Micro study reveals how understaffed security operations centers and alert overload can impact employee mental health. Trend Micro, one of the world's leading providers of cybersecurity solutions, publishes the results of a new study. This shows that SOC and cybersecurity teams suffer from a high level of stress beyond their day-to-day work. In particular, the overload of alerts is a major trigger for this. The report “Security Operations on the Backfoot: How poor tooling…

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35 percent of SOC employees ignore alarms
35 percent of SOC employees ignore alarms

Security analysts in the SOC want automated threat detection so they no longer have to worry about missing out on incidents. The “Voice of the Analysts” survey shows the desire to get a grip on the growing alarm fatigue caused by a flood of false positives. FireEye, Inc., the intelligence-based security company, presents the IDC newsletter "The Voice of the Analysts: Improving Security Operations Center Processes Through Adapted Technologies" (attached). The underlying survey of 350 internal security analysts and Managed Security Service Providers (MSSP) showed that they are becoming increasingly unproductive. The reason for this is a ...

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The struggle for the modern SOC
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Kaspersky features the current IDC Technology Spotlight: The fight for the modern SOC - Security Operations Center. The report “The Evolution of Security Operations and the Current State of Affairs” provides insight. Research from IDC shows that 90% of SOC teams are understaffed. Because instead of dealing with routine tasks, the IT security analysts should take care of more complex security alerts that require human intervention and proactive threat hunting. A large proportion of CISOs state that too much time is wasted completing such routine tasks. Building a SOC...

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