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Today, SIEM<\/a> provider Exabeam and the Ponemon Institute announced the results of their joint research report: \u201cExabeam SIEM Productivity Study.\u201d Shockingly, they discovered cybersecurity professionals spend 25% of their time chasing false positives. Additionally, Exabeam and Ponemon found that cybersecurity teams must address around 4,000 security alerts a week.<\/span><\/p>\n

Meanwhile, in the \u201cThe Exabeam 2019 State of the SOC Report,\u201d 46% of less effective SOCs complain of slight understaffing. On average, understaffed SOCs need anywhere between six and ten employees.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Our SIEM Buyer’s Guide<\/a> helps you evaluate the best solution for your use case and features profiles of the leading solution providers and their key capabilities.<\/div><\/p>\n

The connection between the time wasted on investigating false positives and understaffed security operations center becomes obvious. However, recognizing the problem only constitutes half the equation. How can your enterprise effectively bridge the gap of the cybersecurity staffing crisis.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

How SIEM Can Mitigate False Positives<\/b><\/h3>\n

Unfortunately, SIEM<\/a> possesses a reputation as generating more false positives than preventing them. Yet as next-generation SIEM<\/a> solutions become more prevalent, this perception slowly shifts.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In fact, next-generation SIEM can help your IT security team recognize and ameliorate false positives faster than ever before. With contextualization, your IT security team can observe the alert\u2019s principal actors and behaviors before the full investigation. Thus, your team can determine whether the alert actually highlighted a normal event by accident and save precious time.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Additionally, next-generation SIEM can also provide your team with automated threat detection and investigation. This saves your team time as well, even as it depends on human intelligence to function optimally. Instead of looking to replace your human intelligence, you should look to your SIEM to supplement you human expertise.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

You can download the full <\/span>The Exabeam 2019 State of the SOC Report<\/span><\/a> here. Also, you can read more about the \u201c<\/span>Exabeam SIEM Productivity Study<\/span><\/a>\u201d here. Finally, to learn more about how next-generation SIEM can prevent false positives, check out the 2019 SIEM Buyer\u2019s Guide<\/a>! We dive into the top vendors and their key capabilities.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n


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Today, SIEM provider Exabeam and the Ponemon Institute announced the results of their joint research report: \u201cExabeam SIEM Productivity Study.\u201d Shockingly, they discovered cybersecurity professionals spend 25% of their time chasing false positives. Additionally, Exabeam and Ponemon found that cybersecurity teams must address around 4,000 security alerts a week. Meanwhile, in the \u201cThe Exabeam 2019 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":2445,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,3],"tags":[95,372,112,86,21,57,22],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n25 Percent of InfoSec Professionals' Time Wasted on False Positives<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"SIEM provider Exabeam and the Ponemon Institute announced the results of their joint research report. 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