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Introduction to the Splunk SIEM solution ( Security Information and event Manager)


Early detection, rapid response and collaboration are needed to diminish today’s progressive threats. But these requirements execute a substantial request on security teams. Reporting and monitoring logs and security events is no longer enough. Security practitioners need broader insights from all data sources generated at scale across the entire organization from IT, the business and the cloud

What is SIEM- Security Information and event Manager ?
Today I am going to talk about the SIEM solution. SIEM stands for Security Information and event Manager. Many of you already knew about the SIEM solution used in the many of the enterprise networks. With the help of the SIEM solution that not only solves common security use cases, but advanced use cases as well.

What are the advantages of the SIEM- Security Information and event Manager?
SIEM helps enterprises to Centralize and cumulative all security related events as they are generated from the source. SIEM help a variety of gathering, collection mechanisms comprising syslog,  file communications and collections. SIEM also add context and threat intelligence to security events.

With the help of the SIEM, enterprises also Correlate and alert across a range of data. It can detect advanced and unknown threats. It will profile  behavior across the organization. SIEM also offer ad hoc penetrating and reporting from data for advanced breach analysis.

Investigate incidents and conduct forensic investigations for detailed incident analysis. It will assess and report on compliance posture. It uses analytics and report on security posture.

How Splunk helps for SIEM solution ?
Splunk software can be used to build and operate security operations centers of any size. Splunk Help the full range of data security setups, comprising posture assessment, monitoring, alert and incident handling, CSIRT, breach analysis and response, and event correlation.

Fig 1.1- SIEM Solution Splunk
Splunk SIEM solution helps to detect known and unknown threats and also investigate threats with determine compliance and use advanced security analytics for detailed insight. Improve operational proficiency with automated and human supported conclusions by using Splunk as a security impudence center.

To sense advanced threats, all non-security and security information must exist in a single source. This signifies a huge quantity of data and will deliver a source to baseline standard user and traffic movement. Using this baseline, analytics can notice the irregularities and outliers that may be advanced threats. Numbers can help with this discovery by observing for events that are standard abnormalities of the norm. Associations can also help by detecting mixtures of events that are infrequently seen and are apprehensive.

What are the benefits with the Splunk SIEM solution ?
  • Single product to install and manage, which streamlines operations
  • Delivering cost efficient scaling–hardware choices can match necessities and increase as required. Hardware charges are diminished since product hardware can be used.
  • Fast time-to-value. Clients should appreciate value from their SIEM in hours or days
  • A rich companion ecosystem decreases dependence on SIEM dealer and custom collectors
  • Scalability and promptness issues are non-existent
  • Improves the capability to discovery outliers and irregularities
  • Interface with third-party apps to spread the proficiency of SIEM
  • Helps you merge your business in the cloud
  • Enhance your business requirements using SaaS or on-premises implementations without surrendering visibility
  • Increase operational effectiveness with automated and human aided choices