A new report by Coro sheds light on the challenges that cybersecurity professionals are facing in regard to their workload. The report surveyed 500 cybersecurity decision-makers in the United States, all of whom worked for companies with 200 to 2000 employees. The survey focused on small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), finding that many lacked the resources and abilities to properly handle the large volume security alerts received. 

In fact, 73% of security professionals in SMEs reported that they either missed, ignored or failed to act upon high priority security alerts. Two main reasons given for this were a lack of staff and time constraints. In terms of time constrains, 52% of those surveyed reported the task consuming most of their time was monitoring security platforms. This task is followed by vulnerability patching.