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The threat and security landscape is becoming increasingly cluttered. As incidents increase, so do alerts and notifications, leading to too many alerts and too few hours to address them. Many businesses work remote and with the ever-present smartphones, we are always on the go. Yet it is essential that security teams receive and prioritize meaningful threats, but that task is easier said than done.

“By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail. Preparation prior to a breach is critical to reducing recovery time and costs.” (RSAConference) For 83% of companies, a cyber incident is just a matter of time (IBM). And when it does happen, it will cost the organization millions, coming in at a global average of $4.35 million per breach. The damage isn’t only financial, nor solely related to customer loyalty and brand equity.

The number of tools used by distributed teams to manage incidents has multiplied over the years, leading to a valley of tool sprawl. Throw in manual processes and you’ve got too much toil and multiple points of failure. Maintaining disparate tools and systems isn’t just unwieldy, it’s expensive. Our latest capabilities add to the PagerDuty Operations Cloud to make it easier than ever for teams to consolidate their incident management stack.

Over the past year, Spike.sh social media activity has been null. As a bunch of shy nerds in a small team working remotely across the world, we really never bothered with social media and our presence on it. We always kept our heads low and maneuvered around it. But no more. As of today, we are coming back on social media channels like LinkedIn, Twitter, and Reddit as well.

Saving time and money is always important, but these days, it’s a mission-critical business imperative. At PagerDuty, we help organizations realize transformational gains in efficiency that drive both immediate financial impact and long-term business success. PagerDuty delivers clear value for any organization at any stage of operational maturity. But you don’t have to take our word for it – the real-life experiences of our customers speak volumes.

Helpdesks serve as the initial line of defense for IT incidents, responsible for facilitating incident management, including logging, categorizing, and prioritizing incidents. In the event of a major incident, the helpdesk plays a crucial role in escalating the incident to the appropriate major incident management (MIM) team. The success of this process relies on the expertise of the helpdesk staff in providing situational context to expedite resolution.

Here’s a crazy question: why do we still require a human to manually declare an incident for the things that we know are incidents? If we have enough confidence to build SLOs and high-severity alert routes for these specific scenarios, why are we still asking a human to confirm it’s an incident and get the assembly process in motion? Isn’t that just another button to push when we could be problem solving instead?