Half of organisations reporting most of their alerts are inaccurate.
A new survey highlights that enterprises continue to struggle with cloud security, particularly in managing the flood of alerts generated in dynamic environments.
Conducted by CyberEdge Group on behalf of SentinelOne, and reported by Security Boulevard, the study of 400 cybersecurity professionals found that roughly half can investigate 70% to 89% of alerts within 24 hours, while only 29% manage to exceed 90%.
False positives remain a major issue, with over half of organisations reporting most of their alerts are inaccurate.
The shortage of skilled security staff, siloed data, and tool sprawl were cited as leading barriers to timely investigations. "Organisations are still struggling with mastering cloud security," said Nick Davis, senior director of product at SentinelOne, noting that the pace of cloud changes generates excessive noise.
Respondents ranked data breaches and intellectual property theft as top concerns and identified cloud detection and response and CSPM as the most vital technologies for defence.
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Dan Raywood is a B2B journalist with 25 years of experience, including covering cybersecurity for the past 17 years. He has extensively covered topics from Advanced Persistent Threats and nation-state hackers to major data breaches and regulatory changes.
He has spoken at events including 44CON, Infosecurity Europe, RANT Forum, BSides Scotland, Steelcon and the National Cyber Security Show, and served as editor of SC Media UK, Infosecurity Magazine and IT Security Guru. He was also an analyst with 451 Research and a product marketing lead at Tenable.
