In life, you get a lot of different alerts. Your bank may send emails or texts about normal account activities, like privacy notices, product updates, or account statements. It also sends alerts when someone fraudulently makes a purchase with your credit card. You can ignore most of the normal messages, but you need to pay attention to the fraud alerts. Security is the same way.

Over the past twenty years, security information and event management (SIEM) platforms have been one of the key solutions for cybersecurity management, as they help security teams centralize attack and threat detection activities. The cybersecurity industry is now shifting towards a new type of solution known as extended detection and response (XDR). As the two technologies are similar and have overlapping capabilities, many people still don’t know how they differ.

Security information and event management (SIEM) systems are crucial to cyber security, providing a solution for collecting and analyzing alerts from all manner of security tools, network infrastructure, and applications. But simply having a SIEM is not enough because to be truly effective, it must be properly configured, managed, and monitored 24x7.

Achieving and maintaining Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) compliance is a critical requirement for organizations operating within the defense industrial base. As a comprehensive SIEM solution, UTMStack offers advanced features and capabilities that not only streamline the compliance process but also inspire confidence in security and protection.

Security engineering teams spend hours every week tuning their security information and event management (SIEM) systems to ensure that they are effective at detecting security threats and minimizing false positives. Such “tuning tax” is common as customers add new SIEM rules to cope with rapidly changing threat landscape and attacker tactics and as their attack surface evolves through automated changes to their application and infrastructure stacks.

Industrial control systems (ICS) have historically been isolated and less interconnected. Isolation was one of the things that kept these systems more secure behind air gaps, at the cost of lost coordination and collaboration. This is rapidly changing with the rise of Industry 4.0 with increased interconnectivity and integration of smart technologies like Industrial IoT (IIoT) and cloud computing in modern industrial processes.

The first three pillars of the National Cyber Security Strategy focused on activities that could be accomplished in the near term–perhaps within a few years. The last two pillars start looking at some challenges that we need to address now.

Elastic Security now comes with 1,100+ prebuilt detection rules for Elastic Security users to set up and get their detections and security monitoring going as soon as possible. Of these 1,100+ rules, more than 760 are SIEM detection rules considering multiple log-sources — with the rest running on endpoints utilizing Elastic Security for Endpoint.

For state and tribal governments thinking about applying for — or that have already applied for — funding from the US federal State and Local Cybersecurity Grant Program (SLCGP) or Tribal Cybersecurity Grant Program (TCGP), you likely already know that building out a comprehensive cybersecurity plan is a required element in the process. If you’ve already submitted your application for fiscal year 2022 funding, you have until the end of September 2023 to submit your cybersecurity plan.

Security teams are faced with relentless cyberattacks, and they cannot engineer defenses fast enough. SOC teams face limited visibility, insufficient context, and the inability to identify the threats that matter. Analysts are even more burned out, switching from tool to tool, frantically trying to make sense of what they are seeing.