Alert fatigue is a significant challenge for security officials in governments and organizations worldwide. Where the principal challenge in safeguarding operations and personnel used to be collecting sufficient actionable intelligence and data, today global security operations centers (GSOCs) are overwhelmed with more information than many organizations can process.  

Alert fatigue is at root a function of the exponential growth in data being pushed at GSOCs and other hubs of risk management. Institutions are subscribing to and collecting a widening range of data — everything from alarm data for buildings or networks with doors inadvertently left open to talk on Twitter.