Why Your Security Team Feels Stuck
HelpNet Security, Wednesday, July 9th, 2025
Cybersecurity friction usually gets framed as a user problem: password policies that frustrate employees, MFA that slows down logins, or blocked apps that send workers into the arms of shadow IT. But there's a different kind of friction happening behind the scenes, and it's hitting security teams themselves.
It shows up during incident response, threat hunting, and day-to-day tasks. It's the drag of too many tools, rigid approval chains, and a lack of clarity about who owns what. The irony is hard to ignore. In the name of securing the organization, security teams can end up slowed down by their own systems.
Friction at the core
The problem starts with complexity. Security stacks have grown dense, and tools like EDR, SIEM, SOAR, CASB, and DSPM don't always integrate well. Analysts often need to jump between multiple dashboards just to confirm whether an alert matters. Tuning systems properly takes time and resources, which many teams don't have. So alerts pile up, and analysts waste energy chasing ghosts.