Security Information and Event Management
Explore the role of Security Information and Event Management systems in cybersecurity. Understand how SIEM centralizes log collection from various sources, mines data for threats, and uses synchronized timestamps for accurate event correlation. This lesson helps you grasp the essentials of SIEM to enhance detection and response to security incidents across networked systems.
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A security information and event management (SIEM) solution provides a few substantial benefits to an organization’s overall security.
Centralized log file collection
An SIEM provides a centralized location to collect log files from disparate sources. Appliances and sensors like IPS, firewalls, internet proxies, databases, and servers can send events to an SIEM. SIEMs are flexible enough to receive events from almost anything that can generate and send information to a specified IP address and port. Connectors are established to provide the conduit ...