According to a new survey, security operations center (SOC) and security teams are suffering from high levels of stress outside of the working day—with alert overload a prime culprit.
Trend Micro Inc. polled 2,303 IT security and SOC decision makers across companies of all sizes and verticals; 70% of respondents say their home lives are being emotionally impacted by their work managing threat alerts. This comes as the majority (51%) feel their team is being overwhelmed by the volume of alerts and 55% admit that they aren't entirely confident in their ability to prioritize and respond to them. It's no wonder therefore that teams are spending as much as 27% of their time dealing with false positives.