Every detection product produces more alerts than a team can read. The usual response is to tune aggressively, which trades false positives for false negatives, or to add a triage layer, which adds latency. Neither addresses why the alerts were hard to read in the first place.
Two causes dominate. The first is inconsistent severity: when the endpoint module, the identity module and the vulnerability scanner each define “high” on their own terms, the queue cannot be sorted. Analysts learn which sources to believe, and that institutional knowledge leaves when they do.
The second is missing sequence. An attack is a chain, but most tools alert on links. Five medium-severity findings that together describe an intrusion arrive as five medium-severity findings, each individually dismissible, and the reconstruction happens afterwards in an incident review.