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Enterprise Security Magazine | Friday, May 28, 2021
Deploying SIEM software is the most effective way to prevent security incidents, identifying threats in near-real-time, and helping the organization comply with regulations.
FREMONT, CA: IT environments are expanding ever more distributed, complex, and difficult to manage, making the role of security information and event management (SIEM) solution more significant than ever. Security information and event management (SIEM) solutions give security professionals both insight into the activities within their IT environment. SIEM technology has become a critical component of a comprehensive security strategy in today's business environment. Here is an overview of why enterprises need SIEM in their tool kit. 
Incident Detection
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SIEM allows the detection of incidents that otherwise would go unnoticed. This technology has the ability to analyze the log entries to identify malicious activity and gathers events from all of the sources across the network. A SIEM can also reconstruct the series of events to decide the nature of the attack. SIEM can communicate with other network security controls, including firewalls, and direct them to change their configurations to prevent malicious activities.
Regulatory Compliance
SIEM is very popular in regulated industries. Non-compliance to audit means a loss of business and hefty fines. Companies that use SIEM can protect their sensitive data and establish proof that allows them to touch compliance requirements. A SIEM server receives log data from several sources and can create one report that addresses all of the logged security events among these sources.
Efficient Incident Management
A SIEM solution can significantly accelerate the efficiency of incident handling, drastically saving security professionals' time and resources. More efficient incident handling speeds incident containment, therefore lowering the extent of damage that incidents may cause. A SIEM empowers efficiency by allowing a security professional to instantly identify an attack's route through the network, enabling rapid identification of sources that are affected by a particular attack, and providing automated mechanisms to stop attacks that are still in progress.
In summation, for comprehensive security visibility, enterprises need a SIEM solution that offers truly actionable threat intelligence that can quickly understand the firm's threat posture and prioritize response.
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