Today’s Security Operations Centers (SOCs) have plenty of data but are overwhelmed. A single attacker can trigger alerts across various tools, each showing only part of the attack. While visibility is essential, unmanaged alert volume creates a different risk: distraction, delay, and potentially, missed threats.
Fidelis Elevate® solves this problem with Alert Noise Cancellation™, a built-in feature that filters, verifies, and adds context to security alerts across the entire system. This feature is a core part of the platform, not an add-on or afterthought.
The Root of the Problem: Alert Overload and Siloed Systems
Security teams use many tools like endpoint protection, firewalls, email gateways, intrusion prevention, and SIEMs to fight threats. But these tools usually work separately, with different dashboards and alerts, and no shared view of the attack. As a result, what should be one incident can look like dozens of disconnected, noisy alerts.
For instance, a single phishing email might trigger:
A suspicious email alert at the gateway A macro execution alert on the endpoint An unusual outbound DNS request from the host A data exfiltration anomaly on the network
Each of these alerts may be handled separately, leading to duplication, investigation delays, and alert fatigue. Fidelis Elevate® changes this by correlating these signals into a unified view of the incident, stripping out noise, and highlighting what truly matters.
How Fidelis Elevate®’s Alert Noise Cancellation™ Works
1. Integrated Sensors Across Network, Endpoint, Cloud, and Email
The Fidelis Elevate® platform is built with full visibility in mind. Its network, endpoint, email, and cloud sensors work cohesively to collect and analyze telemetry. Instead of acting independently, these components share intelligence, allowing the system to detect patterns, relationships, and context that would otherwise be lost.
2.Rich Metadata Enables Contextual Validation
Fidelis Elevate® collects and indexes rich metadata from across the environment, covering up to 360 days of activity. This includes:
Protocol and application-level information Executable files, documents, archives, and encrypted traffic Endpoint process behaviors Email content and headers Cloud VM telemetry
3. Alert Correlation
Fidelis maps detection logic to known attacker tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs), such as those cataloged in frameworks like MITRE ATT&CK. Its detection engines use this knowledge to connect low-level telemetry to specific phases of an attack—initial access, execution, persistence, lateral movement, and exfiltration.
Leveraging the rich metadata collected earlier, Fidelis maps alerts to the full attacker kill chain to avoid isolated analysis. Instead, it’s placed into a broader model of adversary behavior, helping analysts to assess the threat level accurately and take the right action faster.
4. Automated Alert Deduplication and Enrichment
Fidelis Elevate®’s Alert Noise Cancellation™ ensures these alerts are deduplicated and enriched before reaching the analyst. That means:
Analysts see a summarized, correlated incident instead of 10+ unlinked alerts Each alert includes context (what happened before, during, and after) Associated metadata is pre-linked (host, user, process, network connections, file changes)
This enables faster triage, clearer prioritization, and fewer wasted cycles chasing non-issues.
Detects and correlates weak signals others miss
Evaluates findings against known attack vectors
Proactively secures your systems with greater confidence
Operational Advantages of Alert Noise Cancellation™
1. Reduced Alert Fatigue
Security teams are overwhelmed by the numerous alerts daily, along with false positives that require manual verification. Fidelis eliminates this burden by delivering fewer, but more precise, alerts that are vetted and relevant.
Instead of investigating 50 individual indicators of compromise (IOCs), an analyst can review one correlated alert that ties those IOCs together and presents a coherent narrative of attacker behavior.
2. Faster Mean Time to Respond (MTTR)
Alert noise reduction directly improves response times by reducing irrelevant alerts and surfacing validated threats. This enables analysts to move from detection to investigation and response much more quickly.
3. Improved Detection Accuracy Across the Kill Chain
Because the platform understands attacker behavior in context, it can detect subtle multi-stage attacks that might evade point solutions. For example, beaconing activity that looks harmless in isolation can be flagged as part of a larger campaign when combined with file staging behavior and credential theft observed elsewhere.
4. High-Fidelity Alerts with Built-In Response Recommendations
Each alert Fidelis Elevate® generates is not only correlated and contextualized—it’s also actionable. Response recommendations, associated users, impacted hosts, and suggested investigation steps are included. These aren’t generic; they’re based on the specific threat path observed in your environment.
How Alert Noise Cancellation™ Fits into the Broader Fidelis Elevate®’s Architecture
Alert Noise Cancellation™ is not a feature that stands alone. It operates within a larger system that is purpose-built for post-breach detection, investigation, and incident response. Fidelis Elevate® combines:
Network Traffic Analysis (NTA): Full protocol visibility across east-west and north-south traffic, with no data sampling or packet drops. Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR): Behavioral analysis, forensic capture, and automated detection of endpoint TTPs. Deception Technology: Decoys, breadcrumbs, and fake Active Directory accounts to lure attackers and detect movement early. Rich Metadata Indexing: 300+ metadata attributes indexed and query-ready for fast, retrospective investigations. Automation & Playbooks: Automated validation, investigation workflows, and customizable response scripts.
Alert Noise Cancellation™ functions as the connective tissue between these elements—ensuring that what the analyst sees is filtered, correlated, and meaningful.
Why This Matters
The longer threats go undetected in a network, the more costly the breach becomes. Fidelis Elevate®’s Alert Noise Cancellation™ capability doesn’t just reduce alert noise—it enables security teams to detect threats earlier, act faster, and respond more effectively. By unifying threat visibility and applying intelligence to alert validation, Fidelis shifts the advantage back to defenders.
Modern threats constantly evolve and evade traditional defenses. What truly hinders defenders is disorganization. Fidelis streamlines security operations with relevance, context, and speed.
See why security teams trust Fidelis to:
Cut threat detection time by 9x
Simplify security operations
Provide unmatched visibility and control
Frequently Ask Questions
What is Alert Noise Cancellation™ in Fidelis Elevate®?
It’s a built-in capability that automatically correlates and deduplicates alerts across network, endpoint, cloud, and email sources. It reduces redundant alerts by showing only high-confidence, contextual incidents instead of fragmented alerts.
How does Fidelis Elevate® link related alerts together?
It analyzes telemetry and metadata across systems, matching them to known attack behaviors. This lets it group related alerts into a single incident based on real context, not just timing.
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