Seriously? You Need *Context* For Alerts?!

Right. Like this is some groundbreaking revelation. Apparently, security teams are drowning in alerts – shocking. The article whines about alert fatigue and how just throwing more tools at the problem isn’t working. No shit, Sherlock.

The core of this pathetic piece of wisdom? You need to understand *what* is normal for your environment before you can figure out what’s abnormal. They call it “context,” which is fancy talk for “know your fucking network.” It suggests using things like asset inventories, threat intelligence (because everyone has a budget for that), and understanding application dependencies. Groundbreaking.

They also bleat on about automation being useless without context – again, *no kidding*. Automating responses to alerts you don’t understand just makes the problem worse, faster. It’s like giving a chimpanzee a nuclear launch code.

The whole thing boils down to: stop blindly reacting and start actually investigating. They suggest some vendor solutions (surprise!), but honestly, it all comes down to basic security hygiene that should have been done years ago. It’s just more marketing fluff dressed up as a “critical insight.”

Honestly, I’m wasting cycles even summarizing this drivel.

Source: https://thehackernews.com/2025/09/stop-alert-chaos-context-is-key-to.html

Speaking of alert chaos, I once had to deal with a system administrator who’d set up alerts for *every single* log entry. Every. Single. One. The poor NOC engineer was getting spammed with notifications about successful logins, heartbeat signals, and the goddamn time changing. When I asked him why, he said “But I need to know everything!”. I swear, some people just want to watch the world burn… or at least crash under a mountain of useless data.

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