Security Monitoring - Part 3 - Next-Gen SIEM

Legacy security information and event management (SIEM) solutions were designed when the corporate IT environment was a closed system, and the Security focused on protecting the company perimeter. Security teams needed to understand when and where security threats were happening.

With a legacy SIEM, security analysts need to spend much time manually switching between solutions and screens while hunting down threats, manually remediating breaches, and writing and tweaking the manual rules to find threats. Meanwhile, the supply of cybersecurity experts needed to understand this complex landscape has not been able to keep pace with growing demand.

Compared to a legacy SIEM, which struggles to meet today’s security challenges, a next-generation SIEM improves your security visibility, actionability, and posture, while reducing management and analyst burden.

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What features are needed to be modern SIEM ?

Here are the features needed in a next-gen SIEM solution—combining the latest technology with a comprehensive knowledge of how threats emerge:

Big Data Aggregation and Integration

• It is built on a big data platform that can collect and aggregate massive data produced by security systems and network devices.
• Integration into an enterprise infrastructure via open architecture to cover cloud, on-premise and BYOD assets

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Threat Intelligence and Threat Hunting

• It is built on a big data platform that can collect and aggregate massive data produced by security systems and network devices.
• Integration into an enterprise infrastructure via open architecture to cover cloud, on-premise and BYOD assets

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Correlation, Security Monitoring, Alerts and Incident Response Support

• Links events and related data into security incidents, threats or forensic findings, analyze events and sends alerts to notify security staff of immediate issues.
• Helps security teams identify and respond to security incidents automatically, bringing in all
  relevant data rapidly and providing decision support.