A hidden, lingering threat is a cybersecurity team’s worst nightmare. With security information and event management (SIEM), your team has fewer blind spots when it comes to detecting threats. If you asked a handful of experts for their SIEM definition, you’d get several different unique takes on the market definition. Here’s ours, along with how SIEM benefits organizations like yours.
SIEM solutions provide centralized insight into the IT environment and, sometimes, operational technology (OT). At a high level, a SIEM system turns data into insights your team can act on by:
Ingesting a vast amount of event data from across the enterprise, including on-premises and cloud-based data;
Applying real-time analytics to sort related events into prioritized alerts; and
Handing alerts up to a SOAR solution to trigger incident response playbooks.
What Value Does a SIEM System Bring?
When it comes to cutting down on the impact of an attack, time is of the essence. It can take an average of 207 days to find and 73 days to contain a breach, according to the Cost of a Data Breach Report 2020. The research shows respondents that contained a breach in less than 200 days saved $1 million on average compared to those that took more than 200 days.
The faster a threat is detected, the better. That is where a SIEM system comes into play. A SIEM can reduce the time to find, research and respond to incidents and mitigate the business impact of a data breach. It helps get the best out of the people in the security operat ..
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