Security's heavy reliance and emphasis on technology--due to both its heritage and the reality of a shortage of manpower--is part of the reason attackers are getting the upper hand, experts said here this week. . A lack of security humans to connect the dots from the abundance of security alerts and data generated by various security tools in the enterprise can easily lead to a needle-in-the-haystack "fail." Target's dismissal of real alerts amid the piles of false positives it had to cull through has become a cautionary tale of just how challenging it is to parse security data today.. Tackling the shortage of security personnel to handle excessive notifications and enhance information assessment within organizations.. Security Alerts Management, Data Analysis, Enterprise Security. . Dave Wreski
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