Why Your Security Team Is Wasting 70% Of Their Time On Phantom Threats And How To Fix It
mandos, Tuesday, May 6th, 2025
Your security team is spending 70% of their time chasing ghosts. Here's how to reclaim those hours for strategic work that actually matters.
Last Friday at 2:47 AM, your on-call security analyst was jolted awake by an urgent alert. The SIEM flagged suspicious authentication activity from an executive's account- potentially the early stages of a privileged access compromise.
After 90 minutes of painstaking investigation, correlating logs, checking endpoints, and running deep analysis on traffic patterns, the truth emerged: the executive was simply traveling internationally and logging in from a new location. Despite following proper protocols and using approved devices, the system triggered a high-priority incident.
This same story replayed across your security operations center 212 more times last month.
Sound familiar? You're not alone.