At GITEX Africa, Kaspersky's Roman Nazarov highlighted the growing crisis facing modern Security Operations Centers (SOCs), which are increasingly overwhelmed by the volume of security alerts and the rapid evolution of AI-powered cyber threats. Nazarov, who serves as a senior cybersecurity expert at Kaspersky, outlined how the sheer accumulation of alerts is leading to analyst burnout and missed detections across organizations in Africa and beyond.
According to Nazarov's presentation, SOC teams are struggling to keep pace with threat actors who are leveraging artificial intelligence to automate and accelerate attacks. AI tools are enabling cybercriminals to craft more convincing phishing campaigns, generate malware variants at scale, and evade traditional detection methods β placing enormous pressure on security analysts who must manually triage hundreds or thousands of alerts per day.
Kaspersky has positioned itself as a provider of AI-augmented security solutions designed to help SOCs manage this alert overload. The company advocates for automated threat intelligence platforms and machine-learning-based detection systems that can reduce the burden on human analysts by filtering false positives and prioritizing genuine threats.
GITEX Africa, one of the continent's leading technology exhibitions, serves as a key forum for cybersecurity discussions relevant to African markets, where digital infrastructure is expanding rapidly and cyber threats are growing in parallel. Kaspersky has maintained an active presence across African markets, offering threat intelligence and security operations support tailored to the region's specific challenges.
