Strengthen identity hygiene before adding more tooling
Many environments still underinvest in identity hardening while expanding security tooling. Advisory priority should start with access discipline, privileged workflows, and verification of conditional controls.
Treat detection coverage as an operating model issue
Alert volume rarely improves through tuning alone. Better coverage usually comes from clearer ownership, triage discipline, escalation logic, and reporting that leadership can actually use.
Compliance programmes fail when evidence ownership is vague
Framework mapping is only the start. The real break point is usually weak evidence ownership, unclear review cadence, and control language that does not match how teams actually work.