Andy Urlep

Over 1 Million Alerts — What’s Behind That Number? Over the last 7 days, this environment generated 1,107,211 alerts. At first glance, that sounds like strong security coverage. But here’s the reality: More alerts don’t mean more protection — they often mean more noise. The real question is not how many alerts were generated, but: How many of these actually matter? Use Case: SMB to Public IP To understand how this pattern behaves across the environment, we zoomed into a specific detection:...

The most dangerous attacks do not look like attacks We like to believe attacks are loud. Failed logins, SIEM alerts, and malware detections are what most analysts are trained to look for. But the most dangerous attackers generate none of that. There are no failed logins, no alerts, and no obvious anomalies. From the system’s perspective, everything is working exactly as expected. The broken assumption Most detection strategies rely on one core idea: malicious activity will look different....