Security News > 2021 > August > How building a world class SOC can alleviate security team burnout

For security leaders, building a mature Security Operations Centre is about establishing robust processes that bring teams and technology together for success.

Recent research indicates that 51 percent of SOC teams feel emotionally overwhelmed by the impossible volume of security alerts they must deal with, with the stress impacting their home lives.

The danger of alert overload. The cybersecurity landscape has become increasingly hostile, and teams must deal with an ever-increasing barrage of security alerts.

In addition to the sheer number of alerts they must deal with, SOC teams are hampered by inefficient processes.

Security teams need to be able to produce thorough documentation for all activities before they can begin automating them.

To effectively automate their alert responses, SOC teams will need to create playbooks of their processes, based on their knowledge and experience of different threats.

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