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Why AI: Can new tech help security solve toil, threat overload, and talent gap? | Google Cloud Blog

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As the security industry has gotten better at recognizing the signals that need to be turned into alerts, the tinny, metallic “ping” of yet another alert demanding attention can be almost trauma-inducing for a weary security analyst. Each of these alerts has the potential to be the first sign of a major security incident, but relatively few of them are. Alert fatigue makes it harder to discern the most serious threats from lesser threats and false positives. According to Mandiant’s 2023 Global Perspectives on Threat Intelligence survey, 84% of respondents said that they are “fairly concerned” or “very concerned” that their organization might be missing real threats or incidents because of the volume of alerts and data that they must respond to and analyze. In the same survey, 69% of respondents said that they believe their IT employees “feel overwhelmed” by incoming alerts and data. That figure jumped to 84% for North American respondents, when broken down by region. Alert fatigue has

Transform with Google Cloud Why AI: Can new tech help security solve toil, threat overload, and the talent gap? April 26, 2023 Seth Rosenblatt Security Editor, Google Cloud Adam Greenberg Blog and Content Manager How AI can take the pain out of 3 of security’s most deeply-rooted problems As the security industry has gotten better at recognizing the signals that need to be turned into alerts, the tinny, metallic “ping” of yet another alert demanding attention can be almost trauma-inducing for a weary security analyst. Each of these alerts has the potential to be the first sign of a major securi

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