{"id":15897,"date":"2026-03-04T19:35:44","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T19:35:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newestek.com\/?p=15897"},"modified":"2026-03-04T19:35:44","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T19:35:44","slug":"the-10-hour-problem-how-visibility-gaps-are-burning-out-the-soc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newestek.com\/?p=15897","title":{"rendered":"The 10-hour problem: How visibility gaps are burning out the SOC"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Security teams aren\u2019t drowning because the threats improved. They\u2019re drowning because the visibility got worse.<\/p>\n

The October 2025 commissioned Forrester Consulting study<\/a>\u00a0conducted on behalf of NETSCOUT surfaces a problem that every analyst already knows: 61% of survey respondents say their analysts spend more than ten hours a week in the \u201canalyze\u201d phase alone.<\/p>\n

This isn\u2019t a time-management issue. It\u2019s a clarity issue.<\/p>\n

Why analysts are overwhelmed<\/strong><\/p>\n

Most investigations start the same way:<\/p>\n

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  1. An alert fires<\/li>\n
  2. The context is partial<\/li>\n
  3. The data is dispersed<\/li>\n
  4. The logs are incomplete<\/li>\n
  5. The analyst starts correlating manually<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    This is the invisible cost of poor visibility.<\/p>\n

    Every alert becomes a puzzle, and analysts become professional puzzle-solvers. But puzzles don\u2019t scale. Not when attacks move faster than your reconstruction speed.<\/p>\n

    The hidden cost of insufficient NAV<\/strong><\/p>\n

    The Forrester study shows that teams lacking strong Network Analysis and Visibility capabilities struggle to:<\/p>\n