The Cloud Security Crisis No One's Talking About
HelpNet Security, Thursday, June 5th, 2025
Security teams are overwhelmed by a flood of alerts, most of which lack the context needed to accurately assess and espond to threats, according to ARMO.
Respondents report receiving an average of 4,080 security alerts per month - or 136 alerts per day - related to potential cloud-based attacks, with 61% handling between 1,001 and 5,000 alerts monthy. Yet despite this deluge, the average number of true security incidents per year is just 7, meaning it takes an average of 6,994 alerts to uncover one bona fide incident.
This 'needle in a haystack' challenge is the result of different tools raising 'their perspective' of the same event, false positives, and a lack of contextual information - such as asset sensitivity, exploitability, and behavioral baselines - that would help SOC teams quickly zero in on high-risk events. Without context, even benign activity can trigger alarms, stretching resources thin.