When everything looks normal: why context, not more alerts, is the next frontier for security operations
Exabeam argues that adversaries now craft activity indistinguishable from legitimate behaviour, making context-aware detection—not additional alert rules—the decisive SOC capability for catching modern intrusions.
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Security awareness has long relied on teaching people to spot the obvious warning signs. Steve Povolny, Vice President of AI Strategy & Security Research at Exabeam, says attackers have been studying the same lessons. “The security industry has spent years teaching people what suspicious looks like: bad grammar, strange links, logins from impossible locations. Attackers […] The post When everything looks normal: why context, not more alerts, is the next frontier for security operations appeared
Editorial Analysis
As attackers learn to blend into normal enterprise traffic, organisations relying solely on rule-based alerts face growing blind spots that context-enriched analytics can address.
Pilot context-enriched detection capabilities in a limited scope to measure uplift in true-positive rates versus traditional threshold alerting.
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