Drowning In Alerts? We Hear You!

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Alert fatigue occurs when analysts, face an overwhelming number of alerts or notifications about potential security incidents. Adding to this, false positives are a curse that continue to cause the sheer number of alerts to become untenable.

Over time, due to the high volume, individuals begin to experience mental and emotional exhaustion, which leads to diminished alertness and, ultimately, poor decision-making.

Key Effects of Alert Fatigue on Cybersecurity:

  1. Desensitisation to Alerts: When cybersecurity teams are bombarded with alerts on a daily basis, many of these notifications may be false positives or relatively low-risk events. As a result, analysts may begin to tune out, glossing over or ignoring alerts that seem less critical. This desensitisation increases the likelihood that genuine security threats could go unnoticed or unchecked.
  2. Delayed Response Times: Fatigued professionals may struggle to prioritise alerts effectively. This delay can have a serious impact, allowing attackers more time to exploit vulnerabilities or escalate their attack and increasing the mean time to detect and respond.
  3. Increased Vulnerability to Advanced Attacks: Cyber attacks, particularly sophisticated ones like Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs), can be subtle and hard to detect. An organisation becomes more vulnerable - and attackers may remain undetected for longer periods – if alerts get lost in the noise or appear low priority.

How can an LMNTRIX MXDR solution help?

An MXDR (Managed Extended Detection and Response) solution that reduces false positives can play a crucial role in combating alert fatigue and improving the effectiveness of a cybersecurity team.

LMNTRIX MXDR solution provides a 95% Reduction in False Positives – Say goodbye to Alert Fatigue!

LMNTRIX employs cutting-edge machine learning and AI algorithms to drastically reduce false positives by automating the alert validation process. By filtering out noise and focusing on genuine threats, they enable your security team to concentrate on what truly matters, significantly improving efficiency and reducing alert fatigue and identifying threats faster.

But why stop there?
There are so many benefits to an LMNTRIX MXDR solution!

LMNTRIX is revolutionising cybersecurity by advancing the capabilities of autonomous defence technology. Their MXDR (Managed Extended Detection and Response) platform integrates AI-powered prevention, detection, response, and threat hunting across all aspects of your digital environment, including user endpoints, networks, cloud workloads, containers, and IoT devices, as well as mobiles. By enabling enterprises to defend more swiftly, efficiently, and accurately across their entire attack surface.

LMNTRIX empowers organisations to operate securely in an increasingly complex threat landscape.

Some of the Benefits include:

Improved Accuracy in Threat Detection:

By combining multiple detection techniques (e.g., endpoint monitoring, network traffic analysis, and behaviour analytics), the platform can better differentiate between benign activity and malicious behaviour. This reduces the chances of important threats being missed while simultaneously cutting down on false positives.

Mean Time to Detect of Less than a Minute:

With LMNTRIX’s industry-leading Mean Time to Detect (MTTD) of less than one minute, they ensure rapid identification of potential breaches, minimising the window of opportunity for attackers.

Mean Time to Respond of less than 30 minutes:

The expert team achieves a Mean Time to Respond (MTTR) of just 30 minutes for over 90% of incidents. This rapid response is complemented by unlimited digital forensics and incident response support, ensuring comprehensive threat mitigation and in-depth analysis of every security event.

Superior Technology – Fighting AI with AI

LMNTRIX sets the benchmark for advanced XDR cyber defence platforms, providing unparalleled visibility with 12 hyper-converged solutions across your network together with enterprise-grade automation and control.

Cost-Efficiency and Scalability

With LMNTRIX you benefit from significant cost savings and scalable, enterprise-level security solutions tailored to your needs – and with unlimited forensics included, this comprehensive approach eliminates the need for separate Incident Response Retainer services, providing you with continuous, cost-effective protection.

An outstanding, Australian owned, MXDR solution that reduces false alerts, helps streamline the workload of cybersecurity teams and improves both their efficiency and effectiveness. All for one all-inclusive monthly cost.

Talk to Team Seccom today about how we can hep you reduce alert fatigue and provide an efficient and cost-effective solution.

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