{"id":7338,"date":"2026-03-04T19:23:21","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T19:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cybersecurityinfocus.com\/?p=7338"},"modified":"2026-03-04T19:23:21","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T19:23:21","slug":"the-10-hour-problem-how-visibility-gaps-are-burning-out-the-soc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cybersecurityinfocus.com\/?p=7338","title":{"rendered":"The 10-hour problem: How visibility gaps are burning out the SOC"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Security teams aren\u2019t drowning because the threats improved. They\u2019re drowning because the visibility got worse.<\/p>\n

The October 2025 commissioned Forrester Consulting study<\/a>\u00a0conducted on behalf of NETSCOUT surfaces a problem that every analyst already knows: 61% of survey respondents say their analysts spend more than ten hours a week in the \u201canalyze\u201d phase alone.<\/p>\n

This isn\u2019t a time-management issue. It\u2019s a clarity issue.<\/p>\n

Why analysts are overwhelmed<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Most investigations start the same way:<\/p>\n

An alert fires<\/p>\n

The context is partial<\/p>\n

The data is dispersed<\/p>\n

The logs are incomplete<\/p>\n

The analyst starts correlating manually<\/p>\n

This is the invisible cost of poor visibility.<\/p>\n

Every alert becomes a puzzle, and analysts become professional puzzle-solvers. But puzzles don\u2019t scale. Not when attacks move faster than your reconstruction speed.<\/p>\n

The hidden cost of insufficient NAV<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The Forrester study shows that teams lacking strong Network Analysis and Visibility capabilities struggle to:<\/p>\n

Achieve holistic visibility<\/p>\n

Understand lateral movement<\/p>\n

Reduce time spent in the analyze phase<\/p>\n

Integrate NAV into their broader security ecosystem<\/p>\n

These weaknesses compound into more alerts, more manual work, and more analyst fatigue.<\/p>\n

And fatigue isn\u2019t just a human problem. It\u2019s a security problem.<\/p>\n

Tired teams miss things. Burned-out analysts quit.<\/p>\n

Turnover destroys institutional knowledge. Response becomes slower, not faster.<\/p>\n

The fastest way to reduce SOC burnout isn\u2019t more people, it\u2019s more clarity<\/strong><\/h2>\n

When analysts have reliable evidence from the start:<\/p>\n

Alerts become easier to validate<\/p>\n

Investigations shrink from hours to minutes<\/p>\n

TDIR becomes streamlined<\/p>\n

Confidence increases<\/p>\n

Stress decreases<\/p>\n

Better visibility creates better humans. Because the job becomes about judgment, not assembly.<\/p>\n

Where Omnis Cyber Intelligence fits<\/strong><\/h2>\n

This is where platforms like\u00a0Omnis Cyber Intelligence<\/a>\u00a0quietly change the day-to-day reality for analysts: not by adding new workflows, but by eliminating unnecessary ones.<\/p>\n

Omnis Cyber Intelligence delivers what analysts need most:<\/p>\n

Packet-level truth they can trust<\/p>\n

Correlated metadata that explains behavior, not just records it<\/p>\n

Three-click investigations that turn hunting from a chore, into a capability<\/p>\n

Hybrid visibility so analysts don\u2019t have to stitch together cloud and on-prem traffic by hand<\/p>\n

When investigations begin with clarity instead of chaos, burnout fades. Not because the work became easier, but because it became understandable.<\/p>\n

The SOC of the future will be built on visibility<\/strong><\/h2>\n

If leaders want to retain talent, reduce noise, and accelerate response, the fix isn\u2019t superficial. It\u2019s structural.<\/p>\n

Better visibility \u2192 better investigations \u2192 better morale \u2192 better resilience.<\/p>\n

The Forrester study makes the scale of the problem clear. We believe solutions like Omnis Cyber Intelligence make the path forward practical.<\/p>\n

Read the commissioned Forrester Consulting Opportunity Snapshot<\/a><\/p>\n

Learn more about Omnis Cyber Intelligence<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Security teams aren\u2019t drowning because the threats improved. They\u2019re drowning because the visibility got worse. The October 2025 commissioned Forrester Consulting study\u00a0conducted on behalf of NETSCOUT surfaces a problem that every analyst already knows: 61% of survey respondents say their analysts spend more than ten hours a week in the \u201canalyze\u201d phase alone. This isn\u2019t […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":7336,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cybersecurityinfocus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7338"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cybersecurityinfocus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cybersecurityinfocus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cybersecurityinfocus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cybersecurityinfocus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7338\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cybersecurityinfocus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cybersecurityinfocus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cybersecurityinfocus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cybersecurityinfocus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}