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Because many organizations already have a SIEM, it seemed reasonable for the SOAR providers to start with automating the output from the SIEM tool or security platform console. So: Security controls send alerts to a SIEM > the SIEM uses rules written by the security team to filter down the number of alerts to a much smaller number, usually 1,000,000:1 > SIEM events are sent to the SOAR, where playbooks written by the security team use workflow automation to investigate and respond to the alerts.
Incident response and detection is a critical part of your security operation - it's hard to defend against what you can't see, particularly when your attack surface now extends from on-prem and into the cloud. Do you feel like it's the criminals and hackers who have grabbed all the benefits of moving to the cloud, being able to scale up their operations at will, leverage technologies like machine learning and AI, and exploit vulnerabilities left as target organizations hybridize their own operations.
Exabeam customers can now license its cloud SIEM technology by use case, beginning with licensable use cases for expedited insider threat and compromised credential detection. To simplify the process of acquiring and installing critical security content, the company is unveiling the new Exabeam Content Library, an easy-to-use security content repository to help organisations deploy advanced use cases more efficiently.
How do I select a SIEM solution for my business?To select an appropriate SIEM solution for your business, you need to think about a variety of factors. New EvilQuest macOS ransomware is a smokescreen for other threatsA new piece of ransomware dubbed EvilQuest is being delivered bundled up with pirated versions of popular macOS software, researchers warned.
To select an appropriate SIEM solution for your business, you need to think about a variety of factors. Many organizations are now migrating their SIEM to the cloud, which allows analysts to harness greater compute power, sift through, interpret and operationalize SIEM data.
Given the magnitude and complexity of the tasks performed by a SIEM solution, integrating it into the existing information security architecture of an enterprise can be daunting, especially when it comes to a large enterprise with multiple, disparate centers spread across the globe. When it comes to a large enterprise with a global presence, the complexity only compounds further! Here's a look at some common mistakes that organizations commit while implementing a SIEM solution, which can later snowball into major threats.
San Francisco-based cloud security startup Panther Labs has launched the first stable version of its open-source security information and event management solution, Panther. Advertised as "a powerful alternative to traditional SIEMs like Splunk," Panther is self-hosted and it uses Python to analyze logs from popular security tools, and also includes support for analyzing cloud resources with policies to help discover vulnerable infrastructure and establish security best practices.
Sumo Logic, the leader in continuous intelligence, announced the availability of its new Cloud SIEM Enterprise offering, which includes a rich set of capabilities to ease the burden on security operations center personnel. The new capabilities help identify and prioritize high fidelity threats and automate the analyst workflow, allowing SOC personnel to better manage real security events and effectively enforce security and compliance policies.
A hardcoded SSH public key in Fortinet's Security Information and Event Management FortiSIEM can be abused to access the FortiSIEM Supervisor. The hardcoded SSH key is for the user 'tunneluser', is the same between installs and is also stored unencrypted in the FortiSIEM image.
Open-source product now has yet another paid option on top Black Hat Europe Elastic, the biz behind open-source search engine stack Elasticsearch, has launched its own SIEM – a somewhat...