The authors of The Forrester Wave™ turn to a quote from ‘The Empire Strikes Back’ to sum up the direction of SIEM: “You truly belong here with us among the clouds.” Sticking with ‘Star Wars’ for guidance, we might also find some truth in ‘The Phantom Menace’: “You can’t stop change, any more than you can stop the suns from setting.”
Security analytics has always needed to adapt to changing threats, and this year has been no exception. Threat detection, investigation and response are more complex than ever. Enterprise is shifting the workload to the cloud as employees work at home in an always-evolving threat landscape.
Therefore, modern security analytics is more than SIEM. It also needs to include SOAR, user and entity behavior analytics (UEBA) and sometimes extended detection and response (XDR).
As a buyer in 2020, what trends should you consider when making a purchase? Drawing on insights from ‘The Forrester Wave™: Security Analytics Platforms, Q4 2020’, cloud services will be key, and pave the way for a suite of features to look out for when choosing between solutions.
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SIEM Cybersecurity for Cloud Services
In the past, security analytics have been seen as an on-premise toolset. However, recent years have seen growth in software-as-a-service (SaaS) SIEM security tools. These have arisen in response to demands for lower capital expense in favor of a model based on operating expenses. SIEM tools delivered as SaaS also offer quicker time to value, are more flexible and scale easily.
Now, many vendors offer cloud deployment on infrastructure-as-a-service (running in AWS/Azure) and in containers. The deployment of these solutions can be even more flexible, providing b ..
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