A Quick Guide to Effective SIEM Use Cases

A Quick Guide to Effective SIEM Use Cases

Part of successfully setting up your security operations center (SOC) is defining your SIEM use cases. 


Use cases help and support security analysts and threat monitoring goals. What is a use case? A use case can be a mix of multiple technical rules within the SIEM tool, or can be a mix of actions from multiple rules, depending on the need. It converts business threats into SIEM technical rules, which then detect possible threats and send alerts to the SOC. Building and defining the correct use cases helps tell false positives from real ones. It also recommends action based on current or historical activity that could be part of an ongoing or future attack. Learn how to set up SIEM use cases and how they could help your SOC.


Parts of SIEM Use Cases


First, it’s important to note that various use cases can be interlinked. By nature, they don’t work as well alone. Their combined input or chain of action will determine the complexity or type of incoming attacks.


All use cases have three major components:


Rules, which detect and trigger alerts based on targeted events
Logic, which defines how events or rules will be considered
Action, which determines what action is required if logic or conditions are met.

How to Build SIEM Use Cases


Before you start selecting use cases, it’s important to decide on a framework for them.


1. Pick a tool where you can design and map the use case framework. Once you decide what framework to use, start prioritizing and focusing on business threats and risks that have financial, reputational and data impact for your ..

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