"Most Attacks Don't Generate Security Alerts: Mandiant"

FireEye's Mandiant Security Validation team's 2020 Mandiant Security Effectiveness Report reveals that only a small percentage of attacks trigger security alerts, and more than 50% of successful intrusions go undetected by security solutions. The report is based on the performance of simulated attacks against enterprise production environments that support more than 900 million consumers across 11 sectors. The attack simulations tested the effectiveness of over 100 security technologies. According to the Mandiant researchers, security alert generation and intrusion detection are poor due to the lack of optimization of security tools deriving from unchanged default configurations, unexpected infrastructure changes, the inability to apply controls testing, and more. This article continues to discuss findings shared in the report about the effectiveness of existing security solutions. 

Security Week reports "Most Attacks Don't Generate Security Alerts: Mandiant"