Sunday 24 April 2016

Ingredients for successful SIEM deployment.

Just like we need multiple handpicked ingredients for making a delicious butter chicken,in the same manner, we require multiple ingredients for an awesome SIEM deployment .

The soul of SIEM is log collection and the heart is knowledge collection .

Therefore in order to function like Hulk, and think like Captain America,SIEM  require logs and knowledge from these systems :

LOGS AND ALERTS:

Security Controls 
  • Intrusion Detection 
  • Endpoint Security (Antivirus, etc) 
  • Data Loss Prevention 
  • VPN Concentrators 
  • Web Filters
  •  Honeypots
  •  Firewalls 


Infrastructure
  •  Routers 
  •  Switches
  •  Domain Controllers 
  •  Wireless Access Points
  •  Application Servers 
  •  Databases 
  •  Intranet Applications 


KNOWLEDGE:

Infrastructure Information 
  • Configuration 
  • Locations 
  • Owners 
  • Network Maps 
  • Vulnerability Reports 
  • Software Inventory 


Business Information 
  • Business Process Mappings 
  • Points of Contact 
  • Partner Information

Check the below diagram for a visual understand


Courtesy :www.alienvault.com

  

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