Andesite’s Chief Product Officer William MacMillan writes about how “despite massive investment in tools and technologies, many SOCs still find themselves overwhelmed by the very chaos they aim to control.”
“Analysts are drowning in data, jumping between disconnected tools, and trying to make sense of endless alerts. The result? An epidemic of burnout among the talented security professionals who are critical to keeping organizations safe.
“This has become particularly acute for state and local government security teams that must protect critical infrastructure and sensitive citizen data with typically smaller budgets and staff than their federal or private-sector counterparts.
“Despite this challenge, today we’re seeing states significantly increase cybersecurity investments, with initiatives like the proposed $88 million Cyber Command in Texas and New York’s enhanced cybersecurity funding for its Joint Security Operations Center.
“The root cause lies in a fundamental misconception about security operations. For decades, we’ve tried to impose rigid structure on inherently unstructured problems. Various products promised to bring order through centralization and automation. Instead, they often added layers of complexity, transforming threat hunting from finding a needle in a haystack to finding the right needle in a stack of needles.