Quantifying and scoring individual security alert are important for security teams to effectively prioritize security tasks. Common scoring mechanisms are the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS). It is an open framework for communicating the characteristics and severity of software vulnerabilities, owned and managed by FIRST.Org. NIST publishes the Base metrics in the National Vulnerability Database
Noisy security detections Modern cybersecurity teams are overwhelmed with alerts from a variety of systems such as SIEM, cloud, SaaS application, network, endpoint, etc. Many teams receive hundreds/thousands of alerts every day and large enterprises can receive millions daily. Security analysts are annoyed by repetitive false positives and are extremely concerned about false negatives caused
The evolution of the Security Operation Center(SOC) Security Information and Event Management Platform (SIEM) have gradually become the center of SOC center. It creates a variety of interesting security detections(alerts) that security analysts have to respond to. Usually, a tier 1 analyst performs the initial triage of SIEM alerts and escalates high-priority ones to tier
Security alerts are signals that are generated by security vendors or security analysts on certain things that are suspicious. A “False Positive” alert occurs when the security system mislabeled a non-malicious activity as an attack. Security alerts are overwhelming SOC centers today, most of which are false positives. In a recent report provided by Forrester,
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