A day in the life of a SOC analyst – and why you’ve got it all wrong by Zoey Chu

This piece describes a SOC analyst’s experience with alert overload and how fragmented, low-priority detections can be abused by attackers to assemble a larger campaign; it advocates adopting entity-based prioritization (correlating hosts, accounts, and detections) so analysts can see the bigger picture, reduce false positives, and catch multi-stage attacks earlier.