{"id":15206,"date":"2021-06-02T07:15:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-02T07:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/2021\/06\/02\/70-of-soc-teams-emotionally-overwhelmed-by-security-alert-volume\/"},"modified":"2021-06-02T07:15:00","modified_gmt":"2021-06-02T07:15:00","slug":"70-of-soc-teams-emotionally-overwhelmed-by-security-alert-volume","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/2021\/06\/02\/70-of-soc-teams-emotionally-overwhelmed-by-security-alert-volume\/","title":{"rendered":"70% Of SOC Teams Emotionally Overwhelmed by Security Alert Volume"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\"><!--<a class=\"format-txt\" href=\"{baseURL}\/View\/{release.id}?_download=1\">View this article in .txt format<\/a>--><\/p>\n<p class=\"subheadline\">\n                               Trend Micro study reveals the human cost of underpowered Security Operations Centers                            <\/p>\n<p>HONG KONG SAR &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.media-outreach.com\/\">Media OutReach<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; 2 June 2021 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.trendmicro.com\/en_hk\/business.html\"\/> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/finance?q=TYO:4704\"\/>;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.trendmicro.com\/us\/about-us\/investor-relations\/index.html\"\/>),&#13;<br \/>\na global&#13;<br \/>\ncybersecurity leader, today released results from a new study that&#13;<br \/>\nreveals SOC and IT security teams are suffering from high levels of stress&#13;<br \/>\noutside of the working day\u2014with alert overload a prime culprit.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>According to the study, which polled 2,303 IT security&#13;<br \/>\nand SOC decision makers across companies of all sizes and verticals, 70% of respondents say their home&#13;<br \/>\nlives are being emotionally impacted by their work managing IT threat alerts.&#13;<br \/>\nThis comes as the majority (51%) feel their team is being overwhelmed by the&#13;<br \/>\nvolume of alerts and 55% admit that they aren&#8217;t entirely confident in their&#13;<br \/>\nability to prioritize and respond to them. It&#8217;s no wonder therefore that teams&#13;<br \/>\nare spending as much as 27% of their time dealing with false positives.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>These finding&#13;<br \/>\nare corroborated by a recent Forrester<a name=\"_ftnref1\" title=\"\">[1]<\/a>&#13;<br \/>\nstudy, which found that &#8220;security teams are heavily understaffed when it comes&#13;<br \/>\nto incident response, even as they face more attacks. Security operations&#13;<br \/>\ncenters (SOCs) need a more-effective method of detection and response; thus,&#13;<br \/>\nXDR takes a dramatically different approach to other tools on the market&#13;<br \/>\ntoday.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 1rem\">Outside of&#13;<br \/>\nwork, the high volumes of alerts leave many SOC managers unable to switch off&#13;<br \/>\nor relax, and irritable with friends and family. Inside work, they cause&#13;<br \/>\nindividuals to turn off alerts (43% do so occasionally or frequently), walk&#13;<br \/>\naway from their computer (43%), hope another team member will step in (50%), or&#13;<br \/>\nignore what is coming in entirely (40%).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 1rem\">&#8220;We&#8217;re used to&#13;<br \/>\ncybersecurity being described in terms of people, process and technology&#8221;, said&#13;<br \/>\nDr. Victoria Baines, Cybersecurity Researcher and Author. &#8220;All too often,&#13;<br \/>\nthough, people are portrayed as a vulnerability rather than an asset, and&#13;<br \/>\ntechnical defenses are prioritised over human resilience. It&#8217;s high time we&#13;<br \/>\nrenewed our investment in our human security assets. That means looking after&#13;<br \/>\nour colleagues and teams, and ensuring they have tools that allow them to focus&#13;<br \/>\non what humans do best.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 1rem\">With a staggering 74% of respondents already dealing with&#13;<br \/>\na breach or expecting one within the year, and the estimated average cost per&#13;<br \/>\nbreach USD$235,000,&#13;<br \/>\nthe consequences of such actions could be disastrous.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;SOC team members play a crucial role on the cyber&#13;<br \/>\nfrontline, managing and responding to threat alerts to keep their organizations&#13;<br \/>\nsafe from potentially catastrophic breaches. But as this research shows, that&#13;<br \/>\npressure sometimes comes at an enormous personal cost,&#8221; said Bharat Mistry,&#13;<br \/>\ntechnical director for Trend Micro. &#8220;To avoid losing their best people to&#13;<br \/>\nburnout, organizations must look to more sophisticated threat detection and&#13;<br \/>\nresponse platforms that can intelligently correlate and prioritize alerts. This&#13;<br \/>\nwill not only improve overall protection but also enhance analyst productivity&#13;<br \/>\nand job satisfaction levels.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>Trend Micro&#13;<br \/>\nVision One is the company&#8217;s answer to the struggles of SOC teams. Prioritized,&#13;<br \/>\ncorrelated alerts using data from the entire IT environment help teams spend&#13;<br \/>\ntheir time more wisely. Fewer alerts and stronger intelligence allow teams to&#13;<br \/>\nregain balance in their work life and ease the emotional toll of security.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p><b><i>To find out more, please read the <\/i><\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.trendmicro.com\/explore\/en_gb_soc-research\/00792-v1-en-tmr\"><i>report<\/i><\/a><b><i>. <\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p><b>Research methodology<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p><i>The study is based on interviews with 2,303 IT security&#13;<br \/>\ndecision makers in 21 countries. This includes leaders who run SOC teams (85%)&#13;<br \/>\nand those who manage SecOps from within their IT security team (15%). All&#13;<br \/>\nrespondents came from 250+ employee companies.<\/i><\/p>\n<div>\n<hr align=\"left\" size=\"1\" width=\"33%\"\/>\n<div id=\"ftn1\">\n<p><a name=\"_ftn1\" title=\"\">[1]<\/a> Allie Mellen, Adapt Or&#13;<br \/>\nDie: XDR Is On A Collision Course With SIEM And SOAR (Forrester, 2021)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.media-outreach.com\/news\/2021-06-02\/80206\/70-of-soc-teams-emotionally-overwhelmed-by-security-alert-volume\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trend Micro study reveals the human cost of underpowered Security Operations Centers HONG KONG SAR &#8211;\u00a0Media OutReach\u00a0&#8211; 2 June 2021 &#8211; (;),&#13; a global&#13; cybersecurity leader, today released results from a new study that&#13; reveals SOC and IT security teams are suffering from high levels of stress&#13; outside of the working day\u2014with alert overload a &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[60],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15206"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15206\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}