--- title: "Your Security Program Was Built for a Threat Landscape That No Longer Exists" url: https://daily.dev/posts/your-security-program-was-built-for-a-threat-landscape-that-no-longer-exists-afcgogttn source_url: https://www.huntress.com/blog/building-resilient-security-teams type: article source: "Huntress Blog" published: 2026-05-31T07:42:50.861Z updated: 2026-06-04T02:16:01.321Z tags: ["ai-security", "security"] reading_time: 7 upvotes: 0 comments: 0 language: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Your Security Program Was Built for a Threat Landscape That No Longer Exists **[Huntress Blog](https://daily.dev/sources/huntress-blog)** · 7 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A Huntress survey of 1,050 IT and security professionals reveals that most security programs are built for outdated threat models focused on malware, while modern attackers exploit identity-based vectors like business email compromise, account takeover, and session hijacking. Key findings: most teams are small (6–15 people), budgets are generally adequate, but 64% of teams report over 25% of alerts are noise. The post argues resilience comes from auditing alert quality, treating identity as a primary attack surface, clarifying incident ownership, and using AI to reduce analyst burnout — not from buying more tools. A real-world SOC case study illustrates how human-led, AI-assisted identity threat detection stopped a multi-account compromise with no malware involved. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Your Next Breach Will Look Like Business as Usual](https://daily.dev/posts/your-next-breach-will-look-like-business-as-usual-ftua7lovf) · Dark Reading · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [How to Detect Insider Threats Before They Damage Your Business](https://daily.dev/posts/how-to-detect-insider-threats-before-they-damage-your-business-q9pctl7he) · Security Boulevard · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Identity Protection in the AI Era](https://daily.dev/posts/identity-protection-in-the-ai-era-9jqbp4xgz) · Trend Micro · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#ai-security](https://daily.dev/tags/ai-security), [#security](https://daily.dev/tags/security) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/your-security-program-was-built-for-a-threat-landscape-that-no-longer-exists-afcgogttn)