Survey Finds Cybersecurity Teams Overwhelmed By Cloud Security Alerts
Security Boulevard, Friday, August 22nd, 2025
A survey of 400 cybersecurity professionals from organizations with more than 500 employees finds about half of organizations investigate between 70% and 89% of cloud security alerts within 24 hours.
Conducted by CyberEdge Group on behalf of SentinelOne, the survey also finds only 29% are able to investigate more than 90% of their cloud security alerts within 24 hours.
More than half of organizations (53%) find that the majority of their cloud alerts are false positives, with a third of organizations (33%) reporting that 60%-79% of their alerts are false positives.
The number one inhibitor of validating alerts in a timelier fashion is shortage of experienced IT security personnel (43%), followed by too many data silos/lack of integration (36%) and too many cloud security tools (32%), according to the survey. A full 92% said they face challenges securing their cloud environments due to using too many point solutions.