Security Information and Event Management or SIEM, grew out of two requirements. One was to contend with the flood of alerts issued from IPS or Intrusion Prevention Systems and IDS or Intrusion Detection Systems which were overwhelming security teams. IDS were used to measure and prove compliance to various legislations. A deluge of compliance legislation appeared in the first two decades of the twenty-first century in reply to numerous high-profile network breaches. In the other hand, the technology needed several things: First, logs aggregation from many network sources, such as network and security devices, servers and databases, and applications into a central repository for analysis and pattern detection. Second, storing data logs for a period of time to satisfy auditing requirements. Third, correlation, monitoring and notifying events in real-time. SIEM is primarily an information platform. As CyberAttacks became more sophisticated and stealthy, demands for informati...
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