How Do You Find a SIEM Solution That's Right For You?

With organizations constantly under the threat of attack, be it through bad actors or inadvertent insiders, Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) tools have become a vital way for security teams to manage potential vulnerabilities proactively based on real-time information. By efficiently relaying actionable intelligences, a SIEM can help discern between low-risk notifications and high-risk threats, preventing a breach that could devastate the business.

With the dizzying number of systems, applications, and devices used in today’s organizations, constant data streams leave security professionals poring over endless security event alerts. Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) solutions aim to simplify the chaos by monitoring data sources for unusual activity to help identify and escalate critical security events.

Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) solutions are often seen as a necessity only for large enterprises with massive environments to monitor for security threats. While this may have been true over a decade ago, in the early days of SIEM. Since then organizational IT infrastructures have become increasingly multifaceted, and the threat landscape continues to evolve.

Cybersecurity has become an increasingly popular topic in day-to-day conversation, and the conclusion is always the same: organizations need to make cybersecurity a priority and work to create the best security strategy possible. However, there’s a big difference between understanding what you need versus knowing how to get it.

Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) solutions have been around for years, helping to identify and escalate critical security events. SIEM solutions have become integral to many organizations’ security portfolios. In fact, according to the 2021 SIEM Report by Cybersecurity Insiders, 74 percent of respondents ranked SIEM as very to extremely important to their organization’s security posture.