The Alert Firehose Finally Meets Its Match
May 25, 2026
Agentic AI / Threat Detection
Ask a cybersecurity pro about Network Detection and Response (NDR) and you might still hear "Noisy," "Too much data." But ask the teams running NDR that includes agentic AI capabilities and you'll hear they're actually using it to catch threats earlier, triage faster, and chase fewer false positives. The old complaint lingers in part because reputations are sticky, and because NDR has evolved faster than the narrative. The origins of noise NDR deployments have always given analysts deep visibility into network traffic, encrypted session behavior, and protocol anomalies. But visibility often came as raw material, not finished intelligence. Some systems required extensive manual tuning during deployment to prevent SIEM overload. Organizations that couldn't invest that time (or didn't know how important it was) helped cement NDR's "alert firehose" or "noisy" reputation. NDR with agentic AI turns noise into narrative A...
