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How to SIEM Successfully

Written by Dan Kaplan | Mar 9, 2017

 

Mentioning SIEM may feel like we are taking a trip down memory lane, but despite its hurdles and frustrations, the technology remains as essential as ever to organizations. From alerting to forensic investigation to compliance capabilities, SIEM is a stalwart to modern-day security postures that are moving beyond perimeter-based prevention and focusing more than ever on threat monitoring, detection and response.

Yet for many businesses SIEM is still a challenging technology that is difficult to get right because of one big reason: resource limitations. Check out the video above featuring Jeff Pold, Trustwave director of security information services, who discusses the positive ways SIEM has evolved, how the technology can shed its reputation of complexity and confusion and what businesses can do to optimize SIEM in the lens of today's threat landscape.