10,000 Alerts a Day: Rethinking the Analyst’s Role with AI
Embed Security CEO and Co-Founder Seth Summersett joined ITSPmagazine’s Sean Martin at Black Hat USA to discuss how AI can help security teams manage alert volume at machine scale while giving analysts the evidence they need to trust the results. Read the full ITSPmagazine article here, listen to the podcast here, or watch the interview below.
Scaling security operations without losing analyst trust
In the conversation, Seth explores how AI can take on repetitive investigation work while keeping analysts informed and in control. Highlights include:
- Alert volume has outgrown human scale. One Embed customer processes more than 10,000 alerts a day, demonstrating why manually investigating every alert is increasingly impractical.
- Transparency builds confidence. Instead of delivering a black-box verdict, Embed gives analysts visibility into the investigation and the evidence supporting each conclusion.
- AI can free analysts for higher-value work. Automating repetitive investigation tasks allows security professionals to spend more time applying their expertise and judgment where they matter most.
- Production-ready AI requires more than a good demo. Reliable security AI depends on evaluation, organizational context, feedback, and the ability to understand how conclusions were reached.
