SIEM and XDR: The Same Thing Under The Hood
What is XDR and what’s the difference with SIEM? XDR (Extended Detection and Response) is a new trend by large security vendors, and too often people find themselves asking “okay,…
Using SIEM for Simplifying PSD2 Compliance
In today’s dynamic world, the fifth generation of global wireless technology (or as we know it, 5G) is driving innovation in the financial sector, and the global pandemic is changing…
SIEM for Google Cloud Platform
Google Cloud Platform and Security Monitoring 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…
The SolarWinds Hack: What Went Wrong With Missing Alarms and How To Fix It
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…
TeamViewer Security Risks And How To Mitigate Them
TeamViewer is a great utility for remotely helping your relatives or for IT people servicing small businesses. But using it in large organizations, and especially for critical infrastructure, is rather…
The Importance of Audit Logs for Security
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…
Using SIEM for Regulatory Compliance: Importance, Best Practices, Use Cases
Why is SIEM Important for Regulatory Compliance? A security information and event management (SIEM) system can improve the security of your business’ computer network with real-time automation, monitoring, logging and event alerts.…
Free Ebook: The Benefits of SIEM
Cyber-attacks are becoming increasingly commonplace and dangerous with both the chance and cost of a data breach constantly growing – over 36 billion records were exposed only in the first…
Why Mid-Market Companies and SMEs Benefit From SIEM
Security information and event management (SIEM) has been “reserved” for large enterprises for a long time and therefore vendors largely ignored smaller customers. “Smaller customers” are medium enterprises and mid-market…
US Cybersecurity Laws Overview And How SIEM Can Help
Cybersecurity is increasingly becoming a topic for legislators, especially for the public sector, critical infrastructure, healthcare, education, the financial and the insurance sectors. In the US, in addition to several…
The Importance Of Threat Intelligence Sharing Through TAXII And STIX
Threat intelligence has been a very important asset to cybersecurity- knowing in advance some properties of malicious actors is key for preventing security incidents. Most typically these properties are IP…
LogSentinel SIEM Roadmap: From SIEM to a 360-Degree Security Monitoring Platform
LogSentinel’s vision is to provide a security monitoring solution to any organization that needs it and thus reduce their risk of security breaches. That vision requires many innovations and here…