Articles about alert

The more layers a business adds to its IT and cloud infrastructure, the more alerts it creates to detect issues and anomalies. As a business heads towards a critical mass, how can they prevent DevOps teams from being bombarded by ‘alert storms’ as they try to differentiate between real incidents and false positives?

The key is to continuously review and update an organization's monitoring strategy, specifically targeting the removal of unnecessary or unhelpful alerts. This is especially important for larger companies that generate thousands of alerts due to multiple dependencies and potential failure points. Identifying the ‘noisiest’ alerts, or those that are triggered most often, will allow teams to take preventive action to weather alert storms and reduce ‘alert fatigue’ -- a diminished ability to identify critical issues.

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Most security teams experience some level of alert overload, struggling to prioritize the issues demanding immediate attention from those that are less pressing. This can lead to a backlog of problems to be dealt with and consequent stress on team members.

We talked to Yoav Nathaniel, CEO and co-founder of Silk Security, about why alert backlog is a people problem rather than a technological problem and how IT and security teams can overcome this challenge.

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According to a new report 85 percent of IT security professionals have experienced preventable business impacts resulting from insufficient response procedures, while 97 percent say that more accurate alerting would increase their confidence in automating threat response actions.

The State of the Modern SOC report from Deepwatch is based on a survey by Dimensional Research of over 300 security professionals, working at US organizations with 1,000 or more employees.

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Summer is quickly coming to a close, and before you know it, the school season will begin. Many parents are understandably excited to get their children out of the house and back to school. At the same time, their kids are likely dreading their return to education. I mean, learning is cool and all, but nothing beats summer fun in the sun.

Of course, the end of the summer means back-to-school shopping is now in full effect, and many students will be needing a new computer for their studies. A laptop is ideal for portability, but should you choose Windows or Mac? My suggestion is to go in a different direction -- Linux! An operating system based on the open source kernel can better prepare a child for the future.

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