Imagine compliance is like a driving application. You know your location and you plug in the destination address, then it shows you the route’s overview. If you want a more specific map, you can zoom in a bit and get more details. Similarly, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) and it’s most recent revision provide the overview roadmap for your compliance journey.

Devices, applications, and systems logs are needed to detect, analyze, and mitigate cybersecurity threats. Logs in a SIEM are like gold; they are both valuable. Gold is part of the economy, and logs are part of the IT ecosystem and are the foundation for cybersecurity. Here’s why they compare to liquid gold!

Let’s talk about a less discussed but critical aspect of Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) – data management. While the primary goals of SIEM include threat detection, regulatory compliance, and swift response, the backbone of these systems is log message ingestion and storage. The amount of machine data generated from various systems, applications, and security tools is staggering. Storing and processing this data can be costly and inefficient.