April 16, 2025
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Drowning in Alerts: The Challenges Facing Today’s SOC Analysts
We know how it goes. You log on to work and are bombarded with an endless stream of security alerts. For each one you investigate and close, countless more pop up. To make matters worse, you spend hours chasing a high-priority alert, only to find that it’s a duplicate of an alert your teammate has already investigated. If that sounds familiar, you’re not alone.
Devo recently surveyed 200 SOC professionals for our research report, The Evolution Toward an Alertless SOC, to get a better understanding of the challenges you face every day. The data was astounding:
83
%
of analysts are overwhelmed by alert volume, false positives, and lack of alert context.
85
%
spend substantial time gathering and connecting evidence to transform an alert into an actionable security case.
84
%
say they unknowingly investigate the same incidents as their teammates several times a month—or more.
SOCs Are Stuck in a Reactive Cycle
The alert-centric architecture used by today’s SOCs keeps analysts stuck in a reactive cycle, limiting the time they can spend proactively investigating and threat hunting. In total, 47% say they primarily discover security incidents through alerts, compared with just 33% who say discovery comes through proactive investigation.
The challenges go beyond the sheer volume of alerts. SOC professionals are dealing with poor alert management workflows, too many false positives, a lack of alert context, too little time to investigate alerts, and limitations to the data they can alert on. Of those challenges, 57% cited too many false positives as their biggest challenge, followed by 55% who cited poor workflows.
Path to Proactivity: The Alertless SOC
How do we help SOCs break out of their alert-driven workflows? Devo’s vision for an Alertless SOC offers a new approach. With intelligent automation and investigation capabilities, an alertless approach allows analysts to focus more of their time on the proactive work that keeps organizations more secure.
Moving beyond traditional TDIR (threat detection, investigation, and response) capabilities, an Alertless SOC automatically builds complete threat narratives—correlating events across tools, enriching them with critical context, and executing precise response actions. That means less time sifting through alerts and far fewer instances of duplicated work for analysts.
The Evolution Toward an Alertless SOC takes a deeper dive into analysts’ challenges in today’s alert-centric SOCs. Download the report to explore how an Alertless SOC offers a new path away from alert fatigue.
