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08/07/2026 6:52 pm
TL;DR: Legacy SIEM models are breaking under alert overload, with 88% of security teams struggling with rising volumes and 76% reporting alert fatigue, according to Gurucul. The real issue is not just noise but the visibility trade-off created by rigid ingestion economics and static detection design.
NHIMG editorial — based on content published by Gurucul: Why Your SOC Team is Flying Blind and 3 Ways to Fix It
By the numbers:
- 88% of security teams struggle with increasing alert volumes.
- 76% report suffering from alert fatigue.
Questions worth separating out
Q: How should security teams reduce alert fatigue without missing identity threats?
A: Teams should reduce alert fatigue by improving signal quality, not by suppressing whole classes of telemetry.
Q: Why do rigid SIEM rules fail against modern identity abuse?
A: Rigid SIEM rules fail because many identity attacks do not follow a fixed pattern.
Q: What do security teams get wrong about data ingestion costs and visibility?
A: Teams often treat ingestion cost as a technical limit rather than a security decision.
Practitioner guidance
- Map telemetry gaps to identity risk Identify which log sources were excluded because of ingestion cost, and rank them by the identities and privileges they cover.
- Replace rule-only detections with behavioural baselines Validate that the SOC can flag deviation in access patterns, privilege use, and account activity even when no known signature exists.
- Preserve portable security data Keep event data, identity context, and correlation logic outside a single rigid platform so investigations can span multiple environments.
What's in the full article
Gurucul's full blog covers the operational detail this post intentionally leaves for the source:
- The buyer-guide framing behind next-gen SIEM and the product categories it compares in more detail.
- The vendor's discussion of data pipeline management, including how it proposes reducing ingestion cost before data reaches the SIEM.
- The operational examples behind behavioral analytics, UEBA, SOAR, and ITDR consolidation.
- The source article's own framing for how SOC teams should think about vendor lock-in and data independence.
👉 Read Gurucul's analysis of why legacy SIEM models are failing SOC teams →
Next-gen SIEM blind spots: what SOC teams need to fix?
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08/07/2026 7:14 pm
Alert fatigue is now an identity governance problem, not only a SOC problem. When security teams cannot keep pace with alerts, they lose the ability to observe abnormal access, privilege misuse, and account behaviour across human and machine identities. That makes detection gaps a governance issue because the organisation no longer knows which identities are behaving outside policy. The practical conclusion is that SOC noise directly degrades identity assurance.
A few things that frame the scale:
- 1 in 4 organisations are already investing in dedicated NHI security capabilities, with an additional 60% planning to do so within the next twelve months, according to The State of Non-Human Identity Security.
- Only 1.5 out of 10 organisations are highly confident in their ability to secure NHIs, compared to nearly 1 in 4 for securing human identities.
A question worth separating out:
Q: How do you know if a SOC platform is improving identity security?
A: A SOC platform is improving identity security when it shortens investigation time, reduces false positives, and exposes abnormal access that previous tooling missed. Measure whether analysts can trace identities across environments, not just whether the alert queue is smaller.
👉 Read our full editorial: Why next-gen SIEM is failing on alert fatigue and blind spots
