Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)

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Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)

• Security Information and Event Management (SIEM),
  is a technology that provides real-time analysis
  of security alerts generated by network hardware
  and applications.
• Available as software, appliances or managed
  service, SIEM is also used to log security data
  and generate reports for compliance purposes.
• Regarding cloud security, the key purpose of SIEM
  is to respond effectively and in a timely manner
  to information security threats. SIEM carries out
  thorough analysis and continuous monitoring of
  all ongoing events.

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• Hence, SIEM is necessary because it can be an
  automated tool to help an enterprise find
  patterns, filter, clean and analyze all the data
  that forms the context of a cyber attack. In
  short, SIEM protects the IT assets and digital
  data of corporate organizations.
• SIEM is capable of offering an effective and
  efficient means to monitor your network round the
  clock. Continuous monitoring from SIEM includes
  all devices, servers, applications, users and
  infrastructure components.

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SIEM enables users to achieve

• Continuous Monitoring for all data centre
  resources, anywhere in the enterprise
• Receiving real-time alerts on security or
  performance-impacting incidents
• Forensic risk analysis and audits
• Security and event logs for historical analysis
• Automated compliance reporting
• Assure end-user Service Level Agreements (SLAs)
• Instant availability and 24/7 services.
• Freedom from manual reviewing of the compliances.
  You comply duly with the regulatory standards, be
  it PCI, HIPAA, SOX, etc. Easy log management and
  compliance monitoring are feasible.
• Vulnerability assessment You can find loopholes
  in your security system before hackers do. And
  then you can rectify those loopholes to
  strengthen your security system.
• Tracking unauthorized changes.

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SIEM ensures foolproof network monitoring and
security for cloud network (or non-cloud network)
with

• Automated Compliance
• Low level real-time detection of threats and
  anomalous activity
• Network, host and policy auditing
• Forensic log management
• Contextual network behaviour analysis
• Executive as well as technical reports
• Risk-oriented security analysis
• Scalable high-performance architecture