You purchase a license (through an RFP process or not), the integrator comes, gathers information about your environment, two weeks later they come to set up the configuration and then you start seeing beautifully ingested logs from all across your environment, allowing you to define meaningful correlation rules. Well, of course, that’s nonsense. It’s never as smooth and straightforward, no matter what the vendor claimed in their datasheet or proposal.

We are seeing a renewed focus on accelerating digital transformation projects across business ecosystems and workflows within our customer base. These projects are enabling key business outcomes and this organizational transformation has given security and IT leaders the catalyst and opportunity to modernize security operations while eliminating on-premises debt.

Google Cloud Platform (GCP) is attracting a lot of companies, large and small, with its stability and many built-in services. But aggregated security monitoring has to be done via an external service. However, log aggregation for security purposes is a mandatory requirement of many standards and regulations. Those include GDPR, HIPAA, SOX, PSD2, PCI-DSS, ISO 27001 and many more.

A few days ago, on February 23, the US Senate Intelligence Committee held a hearing with executives from SolarWinds, FireEye, CrowdStrike and Microsoft about the SolarWinds hack. It’s worth listening in full, but we want to focus on one particular aspect described by the participants – the malware shutting down endpoint monitoring agents.

When it comes to your SIEM, your data is only as useful as your ability to ingest and analyze it. To solve complex security problems, your team ideally needs the ability to comprehensively monitor events within your environment with contextual insights from high-volume data sources.

Security information and event management (SIEM) systems are centralized logging platforms that enable security teams to analyze event data in real time for early detection of targeted cyber attacks and data breaches. A SIEM is used as a tool to collect, store, investigate, and report on log data for threat detection, incident response, forensics, and regulatory compliance.

15th February 2021 Naarden, The Netherlands – LogSentinel, the innovative next-generation SIEM provider, and DataAssure, a successful value-added provider and integrator of data assurance, data protection, cybersecurity solutions, have announced their partnership to help organizations in Greater China and Taiwan to prevent data breaches and achieve the security posture they need to stay protected in the current challenging work-from-home environment.

Audit logs are that thing that everyone has a good grasp about in theory, but is hard to define in practice. We have previously covered what is an audit log in IT context and now we’ll focus on why it’s important for security.

GDPR enforcement (and therefore fines) has been on the rise recently. And after the initial “compliance on paper” that many consultants offered, it’s time to address the cybersecurity aspects underlying GDPR. We have previously addressed the logging requirements of GDPR and now we are going to review the “why” in addition to the “what”.