More alerts are making your team slower, and an outcome-based SOC fixes that

The report summarizes a Help Net Security interview with Rapid7's EMEA CTO explaining how attackers often use stolen credentials and trusted tools (e.g., PowerShell) to move quickly and evade detection, citing a case where a privileged cloud account reset exposed thousands of passwords in minutes and noting ransomware can reach payload in under three hours. Recommended defenses include detection engineering, alert tuning, AI to scale analysts, unified cloud/on‑prem visibility, measuring dwell time and containment speed, and using managed detection and response to act quickly.