Security teams aren’t drowning because the threats improved. They’re drowning because the visibility got worse. The October 2025 commissioned Forrester Consulting study conducted on behalf of NETSCOUT surfaces a problem that every analyst already knows: 61% of survey respondents say their analysts spend more than ten hours a week in the “analyze” phase alone. This isn’t a time-management issue. It’s a clarity issue. Why analysts are overwhelmed Most investigations start the same way: An alert fires The context is partial The data is dispersed The logs are incomplete The analyst starts correlating manually This is the invisible cost of poor visibility. Every alert becomes a puzzle, and analys...