A SOC manager wants to reduce the number of false positive alerts without missing real threats. The XDR platform currently generates alerts from endpoint, network, and cloud sources. Which strategy would best achieve this goal?

Disable alerts from the source with the highest false positive rate.

Manually review all alerts to identify and remove false positives.

Increase the severity threshold for all alerts to reduce the volume.

Implement correlation rules that require multiple sources to trigger an alert.

What is the primary purpose of alert correlation in a security operations center?

To automatically remediate all alerts without human intervention

To increase the severity of all alerts to ensure they are not missed

To reduce the number of alerts generated by each source

To combine alerts from multiple sources to identify complex threats and reduce false positives

Which factor is most important when determining the priority of an alert?

The time of day the alert was generated

The source IP address of the alert

The asset criticality and threat context

The number of alerts generated in the last hour

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A SOC manager wants to reduce the number of false positive alerts without missing real threats. The XDR platform currently generates alerts from endpoint, network, and cloud sources. Which strategy would best achieve this goal?

What is the primary purpose of alert correlation in a security operations center?

Which alert source is most likely to generate an alert when a user executes a malicious file on their workstation?

Which alert type is typically used to indicate a potential security incident that requires immediate attention due to high potential impact?

Which factor is most important when determining the priority of an alert?

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