Question

What is a critical success factors of a Global SIEM implementation?

Answer 1

-> SIEM is Security Information and Event Management.

-> This system consists of set of tools which provides real time information security for the organisations.

-> Organisations using this system can able to identify the potential and unknown threats at early stages.

-> This system keep on monitoring the activities of authorised users and their privileged access to the various resources.

The success factors are,

1. SIEM gathers the log data from various devices like network devices , security devices , servers , applications. Log data is nothing but it contains all the activities performed by the devices. This log data will be very much helpful in analysing the various security threats and events. So this logging leads to a very important success factors of SIEM.

2. Upon collecting this log data , SIEM performs event correlation and this is the essential part of SIEM. So after collecting the log data it will go ahead with the security research performed by the security environment. By acquiring both the informations the system will correlate the events to identify any malicious threats.

3. SIEM has the capability of automated analysis of the events and sends alerts to the concerned security teams which notifies them about the issue and prepares them to take quick action against the event.

4. Forensic analysis is also available in SIEM which is used to investigate a security incident by viewing the logs and event data.

5. Effective incident response teams.

These are some of the factors which leads to the success of SIEM implementation globally.