70% have more than doubled the volume of security alerts in the past five years 99% report high volumes of alerts cause problems for IT security teams 83% say their security staff experiences “alert fatigue” Automation helps, but it is still a work in progress 65% of teams with high levels of automation resolve most security alerts the same day compared to only 34% of those with low levels of automation 92% agree automation is the best solution for dealing with large volumes of alerts 75% report they would need three or more additional security analysts to address all alerts the same day Better technology is needed to manage security alert volumes 88% face challenges with their current SIEM 84% see many advantages in a cloud-native SIEM for cloud or hybrid environments 99% would benefit from additional SIEM automation capabilities “Enterprises are arguably dealing with more data today than ever before, and the pain security operations teams are feeling is significant. There’s never been a more important time to ensure IT security operations are up to par,” said Greg Martin, general manager for the security business unit at Sumo Logic.

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