A company's SIEM is generating a high number of alerts, overwhelming the SOC team with...

SIEM use case management is the process of defining, implementing, tuning, and governing detection scenarios (use cases) so that alerts align with the organization’s real risks and operating environment. High false positives often result from generic rules not tuned to local baselines, missing context, or unclear detection objectives. Use case management addresses this by documenting what threat is being detected, what data sources are required, what “good” vs “bad” looks like, expected false positives, severity mapping, and response actions. It includes iterative tuning: refining thresholds, adding allowlists, improving parsing/normalization, and validating detections against real activity and test cases. “Security analytics” is a broad term that includes detections and analysis, but the question emphasizes a structured process of defining scenarios aligned to risk—use case management. IT compliance is focused on meeting regulatory requirements, not reducing alert noise through scenario design. Log forensics is deep investigation of events after the fact, not the proactive engineering process of improving detection quality. From a SOC viewpoint, mature use case management is a primary lever for reducing alert fatigue while increasing true-positive detection.