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Top tips: How to turn dark web alerts into your 1st line of defense

Top tips is a weekly column where we highlight what’s trending in the tech world and list ways to explore these trends. This week, we focus on how businesses can turn dark web alerts into their first line of defense against emerging cyberthreats. After hearing about a burglary in your neighborhood, you might install a security camera. You double-check your house locks when you hear about thefts nearby.

From Alert Fatigue to Focused Response: A New Way Forward for The SOC

We’re all exhausted—both by the problem and by hearing about it. False positives and overwhelming alert volume have long plagued security operations. And despite years of innovation, solutions have remained elusive. Alert volume. Alert fatigue. SOC burnout. This persistent problem puts security teams in a tough position: For CISOs and SOC managers, it’s a lose-lose scenario.

Enhanced Email Incident Alerting Controls from GitGuardian

GitGuardian is helping reams respond to and remediate incidents more efficiently than ever, thanks to our new Enhanced email incident alerting controls. While you can configure GitGuardian alerts to integrate with servies like Slack, Teams, PagerDuty, and any other system that can work with JSON and webhooks, Email notifications are still the default way we send alerts.

Sequenced Event Templates via Risk-based Alerting

Sequenced event templates are pretty cool, but they were developed around the time that Risk-based Alerting (RBA) was developed in Splunk Enterprise Security. Additionally, they don’t have all the great context we can generate with the holistic picture provided by risk, so I want to provide guidance on how we would implement its equivalent in the RBA context as they are now deprecated in Splunk Enterprise Security 8.0. There are two approaches we can utilize that do slightly different things.

From Alert to Action: Best Practices to Handle Responsible Disclosure

Responsible disclosure is an often overlooked but critical component of cybersecurity alerting processes. Explore key best practices that can enhance communication and collaboration with researchers, turning potential security threats into opportunities for stronger defense.

Empower Your Defense With Data Loss Prevention Controls and Automated Alert Remediation

In today's digital world, the stakes of data loss are high, and the cost of cybercrime continues to escalate. In fact, Ponemon Institute estimated that the average cost of a data breach was $4.45 million in 2023, a 15% increase over the previous three years. As a result, organizations are now deploying a combination of detection and remediation controls in addition to Data Loss Prevention (DLP) technologies. Why?

The Role of Proactive Monitoring in Preventing IT Vulnerabilities

We've all heard "prevention beats cure." Nowhere does this ring truer than cybersecurity. Many organisations discover this truth the hard way-after attackers have already breached their defences. Proactive monitoring isn't new, but it's increasingly crucial as threats multiply. Winter months typically see attack spikes (data shows December-February consistently tops breach statistics). With constant evolution in threat vectors, staying vigilant isn't optional-especially when reputation and customer trust hang in the balance.

Responding and remediating: Best practices for handling security alerts

As organizations continue to evolve their DevSecOps programs by adopting comprehensive testing and monitoring, the next step is to take action on the insights uncovered. This means remediating security issues as early as possible and responding to security alerts and incidents in a timely manner. However, many security and development teams find that triaging the findings of every tool and managing remediation efforts is time-consuming and costly.

How to Solve the Problem of Alert Fatigue

Security Operations Centre (SOC) analysts are at the forefront of cybersecurity defence, managing thousands of alerts every day. The overwhelming volume of these notifications makes it increasingly difficult to distinguish legitimate threats from false positives, leading to analyst burnout and operational inefficiencies. Studies show that up to 62% of alerts are ignored, resulting in missed threats and the further weakening of an organisation’s security posture.

Alert Fatigue: The Hidden Risk & How NDR Solves It! #cybersecurity #ndr

Is your security team drowning in alerts? False positives, low-priority warnings, and overwhelming notifications can lead to alert fatigue—causing real threats to slip through the cracks. In this video, we break down: What alert fatigue is and why it’s dangerous. The costly impact on your security operations. How NDR (Network Detection & Response) leverages AI and behavioral analysis to filter out noise and highlight real threats. Why Fidelis Network helps your team focus on what really matters.