The AI Fog Report: What’s Hiding in Your Alert Queue?
Security teams are processing more alerts, more telemetry and more AI-generated information, but more visibility is not always creating more clarity. As alerts multiply and context falls short, the signals that matter can become harder to identify and act on.
New N-able research reveals a growing gap between detection and action. 86.1% of respondents experienced rising alert volumes, while 54.8% say alert noise regularly impairs incident response.
The challenge is no longer simply how to detect more activity. It is how to determine what matters, understand the wider context and respond with confidence.
Join us as we unpack the findings from The AI Fog Report and turn the research into practical actions for security teams, MSPs and IT providers.
What attendees will learn
- Why AI can compound complexity in environments already under pressure.
- How duplicate alerts and missing context make genuine threats harder to prioritise.
- Why AI adoption is accelerating faster than operational trust and governance.
- How to think about Time to Decision as a practical measure of security effectiveness.
- What teams can do to improve signal quality, context and AI guardrails.
- How visibility, security operations and recovery fit together in a broader resilience strategy.
Speakers
Nicole Reineke
Nicole Reineke is Chief AI Officer at N-able and teaches in the Artificial Intelligence Masters Program at Georgetown University. Previously, she was Senior Vice President of Innovation at Iron Mountain and Senior Distinguished Engineer at Dell, and she is a two-time founder. She holds 59 patents and has more than 20 years of AI/ML experience. She is the author of Patently Successful (Columbia University Press, 2026), AI Governance 101 (2026), and How to Innovate with AI (2025), and coauthor of Compassion-Driven Innovation.
Brendan Griffin
Brendan Griffin is an information security research and cyber threat intelligence leader with more than a decade of experience. He oversees N-able’s Threat Research group, delivering advanced threat research that informs and strengthens the company’s products and services.
He previously built and led a security program supporting a global news network providing threat intelligence, security readiness, and incident response for journalists operating in high-risk environments worldwide. Earlier in his career, Brendan held senior intelligence and product leadership roles for seed- and late-stage startups. He holds a bachelor’s degree in philosophy and, outside of work, is renovating his hundred-year-old home in Washington, DC.