The SIEM market is in flux. Mergers, acquisitions, and vendors leaving the space are creating uncertainty for organizations that rely on SIEMs as the cornerstone of their security operations. If your organization is feeling the ripple effects of this consolidation, it’s time for a SIEM checkup. This means critically examining your current SIEM stack and vendor relationship to ensure they’re still serving your evolving security needs.

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!

Now that we’ve introduced Elastic Cloud encryption at rest and walked you through setting it up in AWS and Azure, it’s time to get you set up in Google Cloud. In this final blog of the series, we will explain how encryption at rest works with Google Cloud Key Management Service (KMS) and then show you how to apply a Google Cloud KMS key to an Elastic Cloud Hosted deployment for encrypting data and snapshots at rest.

As budget cycles increasingly force teams to tighten their belts, proving the value of vital technology is key. It’s not enough to showcase how the security operations center (SOC) is improving security posture and defending against threats, you also need to highlight how this boosts ROI. As highlighted in an IDC webinar and white paper, organizations using Sumo Logic have experienced an exceptional return on investment and a rapid payback period.

Are your legacy technologies slowing down your security operations? You’re not alone. Seventy percent of critical incidents take over 12 hours to resolve. Legacy SIEMs burden security teams with endless manual processes and agonizingly slow search speeds, delaying investigation and response while increasing the risk of a breach. The future of security requires next-gen SIEM technology built for scale and speed, powered by automation and AI.

Elastic has been recognized as a Leader in the IDC MarketScape for Worldwide SIEM for Enterprise 2024 Vendor Assessment. Elastic Security modernizes threat detection, investigation, and response with AI-driven security analytics — the future of SIEM. It is the tool of choice for SOC teams because it eliminates blind spots, boosts practitioner productivity, and accelerates SecOps workflows.

The 2024 recognition momentum for Splunk continues! Splunk is ranked #1 for the fourth year in a row in the IDC Worldwide Security Information and Event Management Market Shares, 2023: The Leaders in SIEM City (doc # US52525024, September 2024) report. Splunk has also been named a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide SIEM for Enterprise 2024 Vendor Assessment (doc #US49029922, September 2024).

Cyberattacks by hacking groups using ransomware and other tactics dominate the headlines, but the risks posed by individuals within an organization can be just as, if not more, damaging. CISA defines an insider threat as the possibility that authorized personnel will use their access, either intentionally or unintentionally, to harm an organization’s mission, resources, information, systems, or other assets.

Implementing a security incident and event management (SIEM) system can be complex and often requires considerable expertise. Teams need to configure a variety of data sources and ensure their SIEM can scale with growing data volumes. In addition, users need time to learn the system, which can delay value realization. And SIEMs also need continuous maintenance to ensure threat intelligence, detection rules, and integrations are up to date.

You wouldn’t drive a car that hasn’t been serviced in a decade. So why are you still trusting a legacy SIEM solution? The world of cybersecurity is in a constant state of flux, and your security information and event management (SIEM) needs to keep up. If you’re not regularly reassessing it, you might as well roll out the red carpet for hackers. Let’s discuss when and why you should seriously consider giving your SIEM a much-needed check-up.