Enterprise cybersecurity comprises multiple security solutions from various vendors. Solutions are typically combined with a security information and event management (SIEM) and/or a security orchestration automation and response (SOAR) tool to allow security analysts to correlate events across the network to better detect and respond to cyberattacks.

Although SIEM and SOAR tools originally came with out-of-the-box threat detection, the effectiveness of this capability relied heavily on human involvement to fine-tune the system for their environment. Systems were therefore limited by the expertise of the security staff and required extensive maintenance to keep up with the ever-changing threat landscape. This limitation led to less-than-intelligent detection and a crippling overabundance of alerts, resulting in real threats being drowned out by the noise—and remaining undetected.