ADVANCED THREAT MONITORING
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WHY IS SIEM IMPORTANT?
Pioneer-360’s Advanced IT Threat Monitoring, or SIEM, enables an organization to get a big-picture view of its security events throughout the enterprise. By bringing together security log data from enterprise security controls, host operating systems, applications and other software components, we can analyze large volumes of security log data to identify attacks, security threats and compromises. This correlation enables us to identify malicious activity and true enterprise-wide visibility.
Almost every business is bound by some sort of regulation, such as PCI-DSS, HIPAA and Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX). Attaining and maintaining compliance with these regulations is a daunting task. Our SIEM technologies can address compliance requirements both directly and indirectly.
New attack vectors and vulnerabilities are discovered every day. Firewalls, IDS/IPS and AV solutions all look for malicious activity at various points within the IT infrastructure, from the perimeter to endpoints. However, many of these solutions are not equipped to detect zero-day attacks. A SIEM can detect activity associated with an attack rather than the attack itself. For instance, a well-crafted spear-phishing attack using a zero-day exploit has a high likelihood of making it through spam filters, firewalls and antivirus software, and being opened by a target user.
Reasons for a Business to have SIEM Technologies
Compliance obligations (HIPAA, SOX, PII, NERC,COBIT 5, FISMA, PCI, etc.)
Almost every business is bound by some sort of regulation, such as PCI-DSS, HIPAA and Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX). Attaining and maintaining compliance with these regulations is a daunting task. SIEM technologies can address compliance requirements both directly and indirectly.
Zero-day threat detection
New attack vectors and vulnerabilities are discovered every day. Firewalls, IDS/IPS and AV solutions all look for malicious activity at various points within the IT infrastructure, from the perimeter to endpoints. However, many of these solutions are not equipped to detect zero-day attacks. A SIEM can detect activity associated with an attack rather than the attack itself. For instance, a well-crafted spear-phishing attack using a zero-day exploit has a high likelihood of making it through spam filters, firewalls and antivirus software, and being opened by a target user. A SIEM can be configured to detect activity surrounding such an attack.
Advanced persistent threats
APTs have been in the news a lot, with many experts claiming they were responsible for the high-profile breaches at RSA, Lockheed Martin and others. An APT is generally defined as a sophisticated attack that targets a specific piece of data or infrastructure, using a combination of attack vectors and methods, simple or advanced, to elude detection. In response, many organizations have implemented a defense in depth strategy around their critical assets using firewalls and IDS/IPS at the perimeter, two-factor authentication, internal firewalls, network segmentation, HIDS, AV, etc. SIEM technologies bring all of these controls together into a single engine, capable of continuous real-time monitoring and correlation across the breadth and depth of the enterprise.
Forensics
A forensics investigation can be a long, drawn-out process. Not only must a forensics analyst interpret log data to determine what actually happened, the analyst must preserve the data in a way that makes it admissible in a court of law. By storing and protecting historical logs, and providing tools to quickly navigate and correlate the data, SIEM technologies allow for rapid, thorough and court-admissible forensics investigations.
Since log data represents the digital fingerprints of all activity that occurs across IT infrastructures, it can be mined to detect security, operations and regulatory compliance problems. Consequently, SIEM technology, with its ability to automate log monitoring, correlation, pattern recognition, alerting and forensic investigations, is emerging as a central nervous system for gathering and generating IT intelligence.
Continuous monitoring and incident response
Another of the many SIEM benefits is that it significantly increases the efficiency of incident handling. More efficient incident handling ultimately speeds incident containment, thus reducing the amount of damage that many security breaches and incidents cause.
Examples of how this can expedite incident handling include:
Enables an incident handler to quickly identify an attack’s route through the enterprise;
Enables rapid identification of all the hosts that were affected by a particular attack; and
Provides automated mechanisms to stop attacks that are still in progress and to contain compromised hosts.