Need Of Security Operations Over SIEM

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Need Of Security Operations Over SIEM
SOAR vs SIEM
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• SOAR vs SIEM

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Introduction

• SIEMs are mandatory tools for forensic security
  teams, aggregating logs from a multitude of
  sources, exploring within a dataset, and auditing
  thoroughly. But anyone whos tried to run their
  security operations solely on a SIEM (Security
  Information and Event Management), knows all too
  well its limitations

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Hard to Connect The Dots

• One of the major challenges when using security
  monitoring and analytics tools is how to deal
  with the high number of alerts and false
  positives. Even when the most straightforward
  policies are applied, SIEMs end up alerting on
  far too many incidents response that are neither
  malicious nor urgent.

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Insufficient Correlation Rules

• The out-of-the-box, correlation rules of
  traditional SIEM solutions are insufficient to
  address the needs of todays organizations. They
  need to be extensively configured to meet the
  unique requirement of the organization. This a
  time-consuming task requiring significant
  technical understanding of the organizations
  cybersecurity infrastructure.

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• Intelligent Security Graph

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Challenging User-Experience

• Using SIEM dashboards, SOC teams should be able
  to view and analyze event information in
  real-time. However, as the organizations network
  expand and data accumulates, security
  professionals are unable to see the logs origin,
  user identities, user activities, and if they
  could be a potential threat.

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Limited Investigation Capabilities

• In some cases, SIEMs are able to combine event
  data with contextual information such as, details
  of a user, assets, known threats, and specific
  vulnerabilities. This provides crucial knowledge
  about security events. However, SIEMs are not
  actually built to support the natural research
  flow in the case of an attack.

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Lack Of Built-in Mitigation Tools

• SOC teams need to be notified about incidents,
  properly analyze them and take remedial actions
  in real-time.
• Traditional SIEM solutions do not provide
  actionable data and investigation tools to
  support SOC teams and lead them through the
  mitigation process.

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• Incident Response Workflow

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Conclusion

• Although SIEM correlation rules consolidate
  events into a single alert, the SOC team still
  needs to explore each endpoint to get more
  information about the incident. Once the attack
  is revealed, the security team needs to access
  the FTP servers and check the firewall log, the
  DLP system status and the EventVwr of the
  targeted servers and more.
• Addressing this challenge with one intelligent,
  easy-to-use environment for all security
  operations is what Siemplify Nexus is all about.
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