This article has been supplied and will be available for a limited time only on this website. In a Security Operations Centre, detection is measured by what happens after an alert appears on a screen. Many organisations now have tools that identify suspicious activity across endpoints, email, identity, networks, cloud platforms and applications. Those tools are necessary, but detection is not containment, and an alert sitting in a queue does not reduce risk.
A security tool can show that a login looks unusual, a file has moved unexpectedly, a mailbox rule has changed, or an endpoint is behaving differently. It cannot decide whether the activity is a false positive, a policy issue, early compromise, or a confirmed incident.
Someone still has to triage the alert, understand the context, decide whether escalation is required, and determine what action can be taken without creating unnecessary disruption. That may mean isolating a device, disabling an account, preserving evidence, or starting a wider investigation.
Many organisations remain exposed because the path from detection to action is unclear.
Speed changes the response problem
