Devo’s strong relationship with Amazon Web Services (AWS) recently expanded to include our participation in the AWS ISV Workload Migration Program. This is important to cloud developers, DevOps engineers, solution architects (particularly cloud SAs), and cybersecurity architects working at organizations ready to transition their data to the cloud.

A recent study reveals that cybercrime costs the world economy more than $1 trillion, a more than 50 percent increase from 2018. Damage to companies also includes downtime, brand reputation, and reduced efficiency. Besides installing anti-malware software to protect against cyberattacks, however, there is other security software to consider. One option is a SIEM (Security Information and Event Management) solution.

Members of the cybersecurity industry — including the Devo team — are gathering this week for the annual Black Hat USA conference in Las Vegas. Some will be present in person. Many others will participate virtually due to travel issues related to the pandemic. In either case, the latest edition of Black Hat, and its home city, have me thinking about cybersecurity and… gambling.

What is it about Devo that enticed you to join the company? If you look at my history, you’ll quickly realise I am passionate about two things: data and cybersecurity. One other passion that is not widely known is that I am a bit of a graph-processing fanatic. Solving problems in the modern security landscape isn’t just about collecting loads of data — which Devo does well — but how you can turn that data into actionable intelligence.

Deploying a SIEM requires strategic planning. When deciding on a deployment, an organization must consider the level of risk it is willing to assume, what its security priorities are, and which use cases to implement. From there, your security operations team must thoughtfully identify their inputs — the data the SIEM solution will gather — before rolling out anything. Otherwise, you won’t obtain your desired outputs to identify high-fidelity alerts to act on.

I’m a security analyst at Orange Business Services in Paris, and one of my current projects for the Orange Group is implementing a new SIEM based on the Elastic Stack. In this blog post, I’ll share why we chose Elastic and how we were able to integrate Elastic into our existing SIEM, resulting in faster investigations and saving our engineers’ time. So follow along.