When Security Teams Step Away, Attackers Step In
Information Age, Friday, July 24th, 2026
More than 60% of security incidents occur outside standard business hours, when defenders are least attentive.
The UK Government's Cyber Security Breaches Survey found over 60% of incidents happen outside working hours, and N-able's 2026 State of the SOC report noted an attack spike during Black Hat USA 2025 when security teams were distracted.
SMBs occupy a dangerous sweet spot: they hold valuable data and can pay a ransom, but lean IT teams have little capacity for proactive threat hunting. N-able's SOC processed over 900,000 alerts between March and December 2025, nearly two per minute, a volume no human team can match. SOAR workflows can triage and contain automatically, freeing analysts for the alerts that need judgment.