Alert Overload: Why Your Security Team is Chasing Ghosts and How to Stop It
Alert fatigue is the new cardio for application security teams, but it’s not exactly getting anyone in shape. According to OX Security’s 2025 Application Security Benchmark Report, a staggering 95–98% of AppSec alerts are like that one guy at a party who’s more about noise than substance. It’s time for a change!
Hot Take:
Who knew that cybersecurity could be so much like a bad episode of a detective show? You’ve got all these clues (or alerts) flying around, but only a tiny fraction actually lead to the perp! It’s high time for AppSec teams to stop playing the role of overwhelmed detectives and start focusing on the real criminal cases lurking in their systems. Less “CSI: Cybersecurity” and more “Sherlock Holmes,” please.
Key Points:
- Nearly 95-98% of AppSec alerts are false alarms, leading to alert fatigue among security teams.
- Out of millions of security findings, only a minuscule percentage represent critical issues.
- The deluge of irrelevant alerts hinders innovation and burdens development processes.
- Prioritization based on evidence-driven frameworks is crucial to addressing real threats.
- OX Security’s Code Projection offers a solution by mapping cloud and runtime elements back to code origins.
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