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SIEM

3 articles tagged SIEM.

Insights12 October 2026

Seeing what your SOC sees: the new SIEM section in Pulse

Managed security has a quiet flaw: when it works, there is nothing to look at. The latest release of Pulse, our client portal, changes that. You can now watch the activity our Security Operations Centre records across your estate as it happens, see every monitored machine, and open the same page for each one that our analysts use. Here is what has changed, why we built it this way, and how to get the most from it.

Peter Bassill19 min read · 1 read

Insights15 September 2026

Iranian state spyware ‘CHOSEN BRICK’: what it does and what to do

The NCSC, FBI and AIVD have exposed Iranian spyware — CHOSEN BRICK — used to surveil dissidents, activists and journalists. What the campaign does, who is really at risk, and the practical steps that protect the people targeted and the organisations around them.

Peter Bassill11 min read · 94 reads

Insights5 February 2026

How Alert Fatigue Destroys Security Teams — and How Managed SOC Solves It

The modern SOC is drowning. Industry research consistently reports that organisations receive thousands of security alerts per day, that the majority are false positives, and that analysts are leaving the profession faster than the industry can replace them. Alert fatigue is not a minor inconvenience — it is a structural vulnerability that attackers actively exploit. When every alert looks the same, none of them look important. This article examines the mechanics of alert fatigue, its quantifiable cost to organisations, and the specific practices a well-engineered managed SOC deploys to break the cycle — because the solution is not working harder, but building a fundamentally different operational model.

Peter Bassill16 min read · 28 reads