Combat Cybersecurity Alert Fatigue with a Priority Matrix

Cybersecurity teams continue to struggle with the challenge of alert fatigue. SOC staff, detection engineers, and CSIRT/DFIR professionals struggle to determine the true significance and severity of alerts or detections. On one side, detection engineers constantly innovate methods to catch threat actors. On the other side, SOC and CSIRT staff are inundated with numerous alerts, requiring them to prioritize and take action.

It may seem logical to increase the number of detections to bolster metrics, but this approach inevitably adds …

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