CYBERSECURITY (ANTI)PATTERNS: BUSYWORK GENERATORS

Summary from the TLDR InfoSec newsletter

Busywork generators are solutions that create a disproportionate amount of busywork compared to the security value they add. They can be introduced due to not fully understanding the root cause of a security issue, prioritizing the wrong solution, and lacking organization-wide mechanisms to enforce the solution. Security teams can avoid busywork generators by introducing security guardrails and adopting a reasonable threshold of acceptable alerts.