Alien Vault Whitepaper: SIEM for Beginners -- Everything You Wanted to Know About Log Management but Were Afraid to Ask

SIEM is essentially nothing more than a management layer above your existing systems and security controls. It connects and unifies the information contained in your existing systems, allowing them to be analyzed and cross-referenced from a single interface.

It is about looking at what’s happening on your network through a larger lens than can be provided via any one security control or information source, for example:

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• Your Intrusion Detection only understands Packets, Protocols & IP Addresses

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• Your Endpoint Security sees files, usernames & hosts

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• Your Service Logs show user logins, service activity & configuration changes

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• Your Asset Management system sees apps, business processes & owners

None of these by themselves, can tell you what is happening to your business in terms of securing the continuity of your business processes… But together, they can. The more valid information depicting your network, systems, and behavior the SIEM has, the more effective it will be in helping you make effective detections, analyses, and responses in your security operations.

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