Reducing Alert Fatigue in the SOC Using Correlation Rules and Detection-as-Code

Alert fatigue in a security operations center tends to appear when alerts outpace the ability to validate them with confidence, creating desensitization and burnout while increasing the chance that the rare high-signal alert is handled too slowly. Practitioner research on SOC alarm validation describes this work as tedious and emphasizes that “false positive” is often an imprecise label, because many alarms are better understood as benign triggers that match a detection condition but are tolerated in the local environment. Correlation rules and detection-as-code reduce fatigue by shifting esca