How to Combat Alert Fatigue With Cloud-Based SIEM Tools

How to Combat Alert Fatigue With Cloud-Based SIEM Tools

Today’s security teams are facing more complexity than ever before. IT environments are changing and expanding rapidly, resulting in proliferating data as organizations adopt more tools to stay on top of their sprawling environments. And with an abundance of tools comes an abundance of alerts, leading to the inevitable alert fatigue for security operations teams. Research completed by Enterprise Strategy Group determined 40% of organizations use 10 to 25 separate security tools, and 30% use 26 to 50. That means thousands (or tens of thousands!) of alerts daily, depending on the organization’s size.


Fortunately, there’s a way to get the visibility your team needs and streamline alerts: leveraging a cloud-based SIEM. Here are a few key ways a cloud-based SIEM can help combat alert fatigue to accelerate threat detection and response.


Access all of your critical security data in one place


Traditional SIEMs focus primarily on log management and are centered around compliance instead of giving you a full picture of your network. The rigidity of these outdated solutions is the opposite of what today’s agile teams need. A cloud SIEM can unify diverse data sets across on-premises, remote, and cloud environments, to provide security operations teams with the holistic visibility they need in one place, eliminating the need to jump in and out of multiple tools (and the thousands of alerts that they produce).


With modern cloud SIEMs like Rapid7’s InsightIDR, you can collect more than just logs from across your environment and ingest data including user activity, cloud, endpoints, and network traffic—all into a single solution. With your data in one place, cloud SIEMs deliver meaningful context and prioriti ..

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