Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
Beware: Insider Threats Getting Worse
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Most recently ESG/Vormetric came out with a threat report that highlighted the increase in insider threats & the significance to augment perimeter and host-based security. The rationale behind the increase was that more people are accessing the network, increase cloud and network traffic are making it difficult to isolate the problem. Almost 50% of the […]
Using a “Playbook” Model to Organize Your Information Security Monitoring Strategy
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CSIRT, I have a project for you. We have a big network and we’re definitely getting hacked constantly. Your group needs to develop and implement security monitoring to get our malware and hacking problem under control. If you’ve been a security engineer for more than a few years, no doubt you’ve received a directive […]
To SIEM or Not to SIEM? Part II
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The Great Correlate Debate SIEMs have been pitched in the past as "correlation engines" and their special algorithms can take in volumes of logs and filter everything down to just...
Getting a Handle on Your Data
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When your incident response team gets access to a new log data source, chances are that the events may not only contain an entirely different type of data, but may also be formatted differently than any log data source you already have. Having a data collection and organization standard will ease management and analysis of […]
Making Boring Logs Interesting
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This post centers around the practice of logging data - data from applications, devices, and networks - and how the components of data logging can help in the identification and remediation of network events.
Big Security—Mining Mountains of Log Data to Find Bad Stuff
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Your network, servers, and a horde of laptops have been hacked. You might suspect it, or you might think it’s not possible, but it’s happened already. What’s your next move? The dilemma of the “next move” is that you can only discover an attack either as it’s happening, or after it’s already happened. In most […]
More Effective Threat Visibility Using Identity and Device-Type Context
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The focus of this post is on the use of ISE in collaboration with existing Security Event & Information Management (SIEM) and Threat Defense (TD) systems.to help customers automate the analysis of which security events in an environment require immediate attention more accurately and quickly.
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