The problems faced by SOCs are well known, understood, and quantified – but not yet solved. SMEs get around 500 security alerts every day; larger enterprises receive nearer 3,000. Forty percent of these are never investigated, while 57% of companies suppress their detection rules to lessen the load. Most SOCs cannot cope with the existing alert load, while others seek to reduce it by consciously accepting unknown risk (often in the cloud and identity spheres). These figures come from a Prophet Security analysis (PDF) that canvassed 282 security leaders (CISOs, security directors, managers, and analysts) from companies with more than 1,000 employees, primarily in the United States. Fifty-five percent of the same respondents say they already use some form of AI for alert triage and…