Security information and event management systems — SIEMs — have been around since 2005, but their time may have come at last.
Related: Digital Transformation gives SIEMs a second wind
After an initial failure to live up to their overhyped potential, SIEMs are perfectly placed to play a much bigger role today. Their capacity to ingest threat feeds is becoming more relevant with the rise of IoT (Internet of Things) systems and the vulnerabilities of old and new OT (operational technology).
I spoke with Trevor Daughney, vice president of product marketing at Exabeam, at the RSA 2020 Conference in San Francisco recently. Exabeam is a successful security vendor in the SIEM space. You can get a full drill down on our discussion in the accompanying podcast. Here are a few key takeaways:
Tuning SIEMs for IoT, OT
SIEMs are designed to gather event log data from Internet traffic, corporate hardware, and software assets, and then generate meaningful security intelligence from masses of potential security events. With CIOs and CISOs now facing increased responsibilities, SIEMs have huge untapped potential for supporting new use cases.
Digital transformation is leading to more intensive use of the cloud, faster development of software to support it, and the growth of the IoT. This means that huge amounts of customer information are now digitized and require protection.
On the operational and technological side of things, all of the environments of these companies are coming online too, so this access also needs to be secure. All of this ..
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