Alert fatigue, burnout, turnover: lather, rinse, repeat

**Executive summary:** This article explains how excessive security alerts and tool sprawl create alert fatigue in SOC teams, leading to missed critical alerts, analyst burnout, and costly staff turnover; it cites surveys and historical examples (e.g., Target, 3CX) to illustrate the human and operational impacts and recommends managed detection and response (MDR) as a scalable way to reduce alert overload, reclaim analyst time, and improve detection and response outcomes.