Threat hunting is proactively identifying and thwarting unusual network activity that could indicate an attempted security breach. It's a historically manual activity, making it time-intensive and arduous. It’s no wonder, then, why most organizations don’t have the time, budget, or resources to undertake it effectively…if at all.
Studies have shown a direct correlation between data breaches and non-compliance. This isn’t to say that compliant companies never get breached, but to reinforce the importance of incident detection and response. Businesses have begun to realize the devastating consequences of data breaches—their finances and reputation are at stake, so many have been taking steps over the last few years to comply with the PCI DSS. The main goal is often an emphasis on achieving continuous compliance.
The impact of the colossal Starwood Hotels & Resorts data breach continues to reverberate across the global technology community. In its wake, the importance of log management and security information event management (SIEM) systems has once again come to the forefront. Let’s explore what SIEM is, the many acronyms emerging in the SIEM space and where logging fits into the picture.
SIEM and log management provide security to your organization; these tools allow your security analysts to track events such as potential and successful breaches of your system and react accordingly. Usually, it doesn’t matter how you ensure your organizational safety-as long as you do.
So, you’ve done your homework, you’ve clearly defined business requirements, and you’ve decided to implement a SIEM solution into your organization. However, before you set out on this adventure there are a quite a few questions to consider.
Do you need better insight into the overall state of your network security? Take a step back and look through the larger lens of the SIEM solution. Security information and event management (SIEM) is an approach to security management that combines two aspects...
