Report by UpGuard

The Context Gap

5 FINDINGSPublished Mar 18, 2026
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Key Findings

79% of organizations are notified of a threat by external third parties such as researchers, customers, or attackers before their own internal detection.

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Threat DetectionThreat NotificationInternal Threat DetectionExternal Threat Detection

For 25% of organizations, manual triage requires 214 hours per week, equivalent to 5.3 full-time employees.

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Security OperationsManual TriageSOC

The median security team spends 20 minutes dismissing a single junk alert.

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Security OperationsAlert ManagementSecurity AlertSOC

Organizations that use more than five disconnected security tools are twice as likely to miss critical threats compared to organizations with an integrated toolset.

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Security ToolsThreat DetectionCritical ThreatsSOC

43% of a security team's investigation time is consumed by manual context gathering.

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Security OperationsManual Context GatheringThreat InvestigationSOC