Alert engineering — reducing false positives

Alert Fatigue — The SOC Killer

A SOC drowning in alerts cannot do its job. Analysts triaging 1000 alerts per day, of which 95% are false positives, will: spend most of their time on noise; miss real threats hidden in the noise; become numb to alerts and skip investigation; burn out and leave the organization. Alert fatigue is the single largest threat to SOC effectiveness. Reducing false positives is therefore core SOC engineering work, not a side activity. The goal is not zero false positives (impossible) but a sustainable alert volume where analysts can investigate every alert meaningfully — typically 50-200 alerts per…