More Security Tools Are Slowing Down Your Incident Response
The New Stack, Friday, January 23rd, 2026
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Time plays a crucial role in an organization's defense posture, including the timestamping of events, whether they occurred during business or non-business hours, context, such as after a major business change or during a specific season, and the time taken to detect and respond to incidents.
While most of these time-related factors lie outside security teams' control, they're directly responsible for the time it takes to detect and respond to cyberattacks and impacts to the organization's overall security posture.