Security News > 2021 > March > Rapid increase in security tools causing alert fatigue and burn out

On average, enterprises maintain 19 different security tools, with only 22% of such tools serving as vital to primary security objectives, a ReliaQuest survey reveals.

The report, which surveyed 400 IT and security decision makers at companies with more than 1,000 employees, also unveiled a lack of meaningful ROI metrics when reporting on security progress, as well as disparate opinions on objectives, tool effectiveness and security awareness amongst the organization between executives and operations on security teams.

Executives at the CISO and Vice President levels have their eye on strategic business goals and ROI, while security directors and their staff, on the other hand, are typically faced with putting out fires, spending a growing amount of time managing tools, and manually piecing together data from across these tools to identify threats.

52% of top security executives said the tool was not providing proper return on investment, compared to only 20% of security operations professionals.

"According to Aaron Sherrill, Senior Analyst at 451 Research, part of S&P Market Intelligence,"As enterprises add more security tools to their arsenal, they are finding that it is becoming increasingly challenging to integrate those disparate tools into their operational processes and find information across the different data silos within those tools.

"Security is not a game of chance, but one of strategy. Each year, the number of security tools drastically increases, causing alert fatigue and security team burn out," said Brian Murphy, CEO of ReliaQuest.

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