Let's Take A Peek At Tips To Make IT Team Work Easier To Avoid Overwhelmed

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JAKARTA - For people who work in the field of information security, such as those at the security operations center (SOC), the nature of their work is the direct route to professional saturation, which can damage themselves and even their organizations.

The work basically requires anomalous searches in incoming data, day after day. When anomalies were detected, the situation became slightly shaken because there were incidents to be investigated, data to collect, and damage assessments and risks to be tested.

In a recent study by Kaspersky and the Enterprise Strategy Group, it shows that there are as many as 70 percent of organizations claiming to have difficulty following the volume of security warnings.

In addition, its wide diversity is another challenge for 67 percent of the organization. This situation makes it difficult for SOC analysts to focus on more important and complex tasks.

To that end, Kaspersky suggested that organizations rethink how to make the SOC team's tasks more diverse, consider automation solutions and get external expert services to help solve the company's internal problems and save them from possible fatigue, as quantities and quality increase from cyber threats.

To streamline SOC work and avoid alert fatigue, Kaspersky shared the following tips with the company: