Alert Fatigue Is Becoming a Security Threat of Its Own¶
Lewis, K. T. (2025). Alert Fatigue Is Becoming a Security Threat of Its Own. SecurityWeek.
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Primes¶
- Near-Miss Normalization
- In cybersecurity, alerts that did not become incidents are used as evidence that defences work, when they may evidence an attacker who chose not to escalate that day.
This sourceDocuments how high volumes of non-incident security alerts produce false reassurance ('nothing critical has happened') and increase dwell time and blast radius — the security-operations form of reading non-incidents as defense-validation.
- In cybersecurity, alerts that did not become incidents are used as evidence that defences work, when they may evidence an attacker who chose not to escalate that day.
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