- Google Cloud Survey finds that even cybersecurity experts are overwhelmed by too many threat notifications
- The security field suffers from a shortage of skills, endangering companies in danger
- Unsurprisingly, the researchers say that the answer is a
Security professionals have long reported high levels of stress and professional exhaustion, which is only aggravated by a shortage of skills in the industry, and new research says that the volume of threats, as well as the data that threats produce, put companies in danger.
Google Cloud’s search has revealed that threat notifications are not the useful tool that they could be, and in fact, overwhelming security teams, with almost two thirds (61%) of security practitioners, say that there are, “ Too many intelligence data on ”, and 60% believing that there is too few threatening analysts to travel effectively.
“Rather than helping efficiency, a myriad [threat intelligence] Provides flooded security teams with data, making it difficult to extract useful information or prioritize and respond to threats. Security teams need visibility on relevant threats, a correlation supplied by large -scale AI and qualified defenders to use usable information, allowing a reagent to a proactive security posture, “said the study.
Needles in a hay boot
Too much data leads to analysts trapped in “ reactive mode ”, 86% of respondents saying that their organization has gaps in its understanding of the landscape of threats, as well as 85% affirming that more attention could be devoted to emerging threats, and 72% are mainly reactive to threats, which could not get ahead of trends.
The adjacent research of Sentinelone shows that a large part of the cloud safety alerts are false positives (not relevant to the organization). The majority of respondents (53%) say that more than half of the alerts they receive are a false positive, describing how real the “alert” is.
This makes securing difficult cloud environments, say 92% of respondents, with too many occasional solutions leading to management and integration problems, creating more alerts, lower quality alerts and therefore slower reactions to attacks through confusion.
Unsurprisingly, the two research sets have a suggestion to solve this problem – and he does not invest in better training and better support to face the shortage of skills. Instead, you guessed it, it’s AI.
The AI can help to mitigate pressure by improving the ability of an organization to operationalize threats, generate “ easy -to -read summaries ” and recommend following steps to “ level level analysts ”, according to Google’s search.
“We believe that the key is to integrate the intelligence of threats directly into workflows and safety tools, so it can be accessible and analyzed quickly and effectively,” noted Jayce Nichols, director of Google Cloud, Intelligence Solutions.
“AI has a vital role in this integration, helping to synthesize raw data, to manage repetitive tasks and to reduce work work to free human analysts to concentrate their efforts on critical decision -making.”
