Hello Stamus Networks community!

This month’s edition looks at how SOC teams are navigating detection challenges in their environments - from alert fatigue and unclear signals to determining whether existing tools provide enough visibility. We’re also sharing new resources to support that evaluation and where to find us at upcoming events.

Evaluating Detection Gaps:

Is NDR the Right Next Step?

When evaluating detection and response solutions, what matters is whether the platform supports confident decision-making. Can your team quickly understand what happened, assess the impact, and act? The difference between unclear signals and actionable intelligence directly affects response speed and SOC workload.

To help teams determine if NDR is right for your threat detection strategy, Stamus created a short checklist, informed by findings from the SANS Detection & Response Survey. This resource (no form required) focuses on key evaluation themes such as visibility gaps, signal quality, and operational capacity. Uncertainty in these areas often reflects the same operational pressures highlighted in the research.

Download the checklist below & explore the full NDR evaluation resources here:

Want to go deeper?

We have also developed a whitepaper, Closing Detection Gaps: A Practical Playbook for SOC Teams, based on the SANS data. It expands on the checklist with a five-step framework to assess coverage, identify blind spots, evaluate detection fidelity, measure analyst workload, and prioritize remediation.

From 10,000 Alerts to Just Five

With Smarter, AI-driven Hunting

Most security teams know the frustration of alert fatigue — thousands of signals that take too long to sort and contain too little context to act on. In this video snippet from our Beyond the Chatbot series, we show how autonomous AI-driven threat hunting can dramatically reduce alert noise by focusing on the most suspicious activities and turn thousands of alerts into just a handful of actionable investigations.

Prefer the full walkthrough? You can find the entire video demonstration in our latest blog post: Beyond the Chatbot: Meet Your New Autonomous Tier-3 Threat Hunter.

Securing the Infrastructure

Your Endpoint Tools Can’t See

Network infrastructure devices are one of the largest blind spots in modern security architectures. Switches, routers, firewalls, and operational systems can’t run endpoint agents, leaving them largely invisible to tools designed around host-based visibility.

Our latest solution brief explains how attackers are actively exploiting that gap, compromising infrastructure devices using known vulnerabilities, and why endpoint-centric security platforms are unable to detect or investigate these intrusions. This brief can help you clarify whether your current threat detection approach leaves critical parts of your environment unprotected. Download now >>

Attending FIC? Let’s Connect at Stand G39

We’ll be on the ground at Forum InCyber Europe March 31 – April 2 in Lille, France — one of Europe’s leading cybersecurity events that unites practitioners, vendors, and public sector leaders around operational cyber challenges and digital trust.

If you’ll be at the show and want to talk through NDR evaluation challenges, alert quality, or SOC workload realities, stop by or book time with our team while you’re there.

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