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Could your choice of metrics be harming your SOC?

2026-04-27 · Read original ↗

ATT&CK techniques detected

2 predictions
T1059.001PowerShell
88%
“techniques, and the alerts ( or hardening suggestions ) that the analyst proposes following the hunt. - 2 maximal true positives / minimal false positives every false positive harms your soc by both distracting an analyst, and by incentivising them to expect false positives. socs…”
T1654Log Enumeration
57%
“the more rules there are to ' detect bad things ' will result in more chances to ' detect bad things '. unfortunately this is rarely the case. such a metric almost always leads to the perverse outcome of ‘ alert inflation ’ ; analysts are incentivised to write as many rules as po…”

Summary

Poor metrics can render a well-intentioned security operation centre entirely ineffective.