• Maggie MacAlpine
• August 13, 2025
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A new CSO Online report based on research by Heimdal and FutureSafe paints a troubling picture for the managed services industry: 89% of MSPs struggle with integrating their security tools, and more than half (56%) experience daily or weekly alert fatigue.

Even more concerning, MSPs juggling seven or more security tools reported almost double the alert fatigue compared to those with fewer tools—creating the perfect storm for missed detections and delayed responses.

Why Tool Sprawl is a Security Risk

While adopting new security tools can seem like a way to improve protection, the reality is that more tools often mean:

• More siloed data – Indicators and context trapped in separate systems.
  
• Increased complexity – Higher training needs, more management overhead, and greater human error.
  
• Slower detection and response – Analysts waste time jumping between dashboards instead of acting on threats.
  

In the MSP context, where teams manage multiple clients across varied environments, the impact multiplies. Every second spent navigating a complex tool stack is a second attackers can use to escalate privileges, exfiltrate data, or deploy ransomware.

The Link to Missed Threats

Alert fatigue isn’t just a productivity drain—it’s a direct security risk. When analysts face hundreds of alerts per day, many of them low-priority or false positives, it becomes nearly impossible to spot the genuine high-severity incidents.

This problem is magnified for MSPs:

• A false positive for one client might look similar to a real attack for another.
  
• Important anomalies get buried in noisy queues.
  
• Analysts may unconsciously tune out alerts entirely—a dangerous habit in a multi-tenant environment.
  

From Siloed Tools to Unified Security

The answer isn’t more tools—it’s better integration and correlation. A unified platform that ingests telemetry from multiple sources—endpoints, networks, identities, cloud, DNS—can:

• Correlate related alerts into a single, high-context incident.
  
• Reduce false positives through AI-driven analytics.
  
• Automate routine responses, freeing analysts to focus on genuine threats.
  

This approach also directly addresses common enterprise security priorities such as:

• Cloud network security for hybrid workloads.
  
• DNS security to block command-and-control channels early.
  
• Intrusion detection and prevention to stop malicious behavior in real time.
  
• IoT security for the expanding number of unmanaged connected devices.
  

The Seceon Perspective

At Seceon, we’ve seen firsthand how tool sprawl can undermine even the most well-intentioned security strategies. Our platform is built to consolidate visibility and action into a single pane of glass—eliminating the need to juggle multiple consoles while providing AI-driven detection, automated response, and context-rich alerts.

By integrating data from across your infrastructure—endpoint, network, cloud, identity—we help MSPs and enterprises:

• Reduce alert volume without sacrificing coverage.
  
• Increase analyst efficiency.
  
• Catch threats that would otherwise slip between the cracks of disconnected tools.
  

Because the only thing worse than an overwhelming number of alerts is missing the one that really matters.