44% of true-positive security alerts from cloud security tools in Q3 2025 were driven by identity-related weaknesses.

Investigating and responding to security alerts and incidents consumes 26.6% of Managed Service Provider (MSP) technician time.

88% of security leaders say alert volume increased in the past year.

Nearly half of security leaders reported alert volume spikes over 25%.

65% of CISOs aim to reduce alert noise.

Only 14% of attacks generated alerts.

82% of IT and cybersecurity leaders worry about missing threats due to the volume of alerts and data they are faced with.

35% of IT and cybersecurity leaders are "very concerned" that their organization might be missing real threats/incidents due to the amount of alerts and data they are faced it.

47% of IT and cybersecurity leaders are "concerned" that their organization might be missing real threats/incidents due to the amount of alerts and data they are faced it.

Security teams receive an average of 4,080 alerts per month from multiple cloud security tools.

It takes an average of 7.7 days, up to 30 days, to correlate alerts across cloud tools and organizational silos.

46% of respondents grapple with cloud security tool alert fatigue.

Security teams must sift through roughly 7,000 cloud security tool alerts to find a single active threat.

45% of respondents report consistent false positives from their cloud security tools.

92% of respondents believe that unified cloud runtime security solutions would enhance incident response efficiency and contextualise alerts.

Only 13% of organizations successfully correlate alerts between cloud security tools.

59% of respondents report having too many alerts.

55% of respondents report having to address too many false positives.

86% of security alerts escalate into tickets, which indicates that most alerts still require human validation.

86% of security alerts escalate into tickets, which indicates that most alerts still require human validation.