Organizations are not doing enough to improve SOCs

The average security operations center (SOC) has considerable room for improvement according to a new report from automation and response platform SIRP Labs. Almost a third (29 percent) of respondents believe missed alerts due to high volumes are a significant, even a serious, problem. In companies of 1,000-2,500 employees the figure rises to 46 percent. Elsewhere, a quarter of alerts prove to be false positives leaving over half (51 percent) of survey respondents frustrated to a greater or lesser extent with current processes for investigating threats. On average, time spent managing security alerts in staff hours alone is costing organisations… [Continue Reading]