Automated systems: Flag smarter, not everything - Help Net Security

Automated systems: Flag smarter, not everything - Help Net Security

Imagine dealing with 1,000s of security alerts a day, whilst simultaneously juggling the tasks that are part of your day-to-day job. Challenging right? This is the current problem cybersecurity professionals are facing. Rather than making their jobs easier, automated systems are adding more work to the workload of the CISO and his or her team.


Cybersecurity professionals are constantly receiving a large number of security alerts from these automated systems – most of which are near-to-useless information. As opposed to flagging potential incidents in the network, these systems are flagging alerts every time it encounters anything – any anomaly, any intrusion attempt, any suspicious code, any unusual data movement.


With all that said, the result is that CISOs should simply switch off any system that doesn’t mitigate threats automatically at their ..

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