SIEM has traditionally earned itself a bad reputation as an unwieldy and unmanageable tool that really never lived up to its promises. In my presentation during Illuminate, I talked about what Sumo Logic is doing to modernize log analytics and SIEM as a whole. Today, we see that despite how overall technology is accelerating, security always seems to lag behind. In Sumo Logic, we address this head-on.

The ever-evolving cloud-native landscape creates constantly changing attack surfaces. As a result, teams implement a whole suite of security tools to identify large varieties of vulnerabilities and attacks, as well as monitor more logs than ever to find malicious activity. But monitoring so much information can cause a barrage of notifications and alerts. Even if you’re identifying real security threats, it can be impossible to know where to start and where to focus.

System Monitor (Sysmon) is Windows’ service for monitoring activity and recording it to the Windows event log. It is the go-to for logging anything on a PC. Sysmon will immediately log events, capturing vital info. The driver for Sysmon will install as a boot-start driver, enabling capture of any and all events from the get-go. Now, you can send Sysmon logs straight to Logz.io Cloud SIEM.

Modern day Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) tooling enterprise security technology combine systems together for a comprehensive view of IT security. This can be tricky, so we’ve put together a simple SIEM tutorial to help you understand what a great SIEM provider will do for you. A SIEM’s responsibility is to collect, store, analyze, investigate and report on log and other data for incident response, forensics and regulatory compliance purposes.

While all cybersecurity professionals agree that log management is integral for robust proactive and reactive security, managing the enormous amount of data logs can be a challenge. While you might be tempted to collect all logs generated from your systems, software, network devices, and users, this “fear of missing out” on an important notification ultimately leads to so much noise that your security analysts and threat hunters cannot find the most important information.

Stormshield and SonicWall are popular firewalls used to monitor network traffic for malicious actors. Firewalls can help detect all kinds of attacks, like brute force logins, DDoS, and SQL Injection, but they just make up a piece of the security puzzle. Most teams will have many other security tools that address different kinds of vulnerabilities and attacks.