UpGuard Report: 43% of Security Response Time Lost to Manual Triage
Event summary
- UpGuard's 2026 Context Gap Report reveals security teams waste 43% of response time on manual context gathering.
- 79% of organizations learned of threats from external third parties before internal detection.
- 25% of organizations spend 214 hours weekly on manual triage, equivalent to 5.3 full-time employees.
- Companies using more than five disconnected security tools are twice as likely to miss critical threats.
- UpGuard surveyed 400 security leaders across North America, APAC, and India for the report.
The big picture
The report highlights a structural failure in mid-market security teams' ability to manage alert volumes, exacerbated by AI-driven cyberattacks. This inefficiency underscores the growing need for automated solutions to streamline threat detection and response. The findings suggest a broader industry shift towards consolidated, AI-enhanced security platforms to improve operational efficiency and reduce risk exposure.
What we're watching
- AI Adoption
- How AI-powered solutions will affect the pace of closing the Context Gap in security operations.
- Tool Consolidation
- Whether organizations will prioritize integrated toolsets to reduce missed threats.
- Resource Allocation
- The impact of lean security teams in mid-market organizations on their ability to manage enterprise-level threat volumes.
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