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Tool Sprawl & False Positives Hold Security Teams Back

Security teams spend as much time addressing false positive alerts as they do addressing actual cyberattacks, survey data shows. 75% of respondents say their organization spends an equal amount, or more, time on false positives as on legitimate attacks. 45% of all daily security alerts are false positives, according to a study by ESG Research and commissioned by Fastly. Most organizations use an average of 11 Web application and API security tools each year, and they spend $2.6 million on them each year.”]

Source: https://www.darkreading.com/application-security/tool-sprawl-and-false-positives-hold-security-teams-back/d/d-id/1341517

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