Security teams are burned out & here’s one way to fix that
Cybersecurity has never been more complex or more human. Tools are important, yes, but it’s the people behind them who bear the brunt of alert fatigue, understaffing, and rising expectations.
In his latest article on Security Magazine, Stairwell founder Mike Wiacek makes a strong case: we don’t just need more tech — we need smarter collaboration.
“Threat actors don’t operate in silos — so defenders shouldn’t either.”
The article dives deep into what’s really holding security teams back:
- Rigid role boundaries that limit impact
- Bottlenecks created by siloed workflows
- A lack of visibility into past threats and variant activity
- Analysts stuck in reactive triage mode, without the tools or time to truly investigate
The solution isn’t just new dashboards or more alerts, it’s breaking down silos and giving SOC analysts, threat intelligence teams, and IR specialists shared access to data, context, and decision-making tools.
Security is strongest when defenders are upskilled, cross-trained, and equipped with the historical and behavioral context to ask:
Have we seen this before? What else does it connect to? Can we stop it faster next time?
