What is a SIEM?
A Security Information and Event Management platform typically centralises security data from multiple systems and provides capabilities for searching, alerting, correlation and investigation.
Enterprise SIEM deployments can be powerful, but they may also require significant configuration, data management and security expertise.
What is security log monitoring?
Security log monitoring focuses on reviewing security-relevant records to identify activity that deserves investigation or additional context.
A monitoring approach can be narrower than a full SIEM deployment and may be more suitable where an organisation wants clearer visibility without operating a large security platform.
What should an SME consider?
- Which systems contain the organisation's most important data?
- Which identities and accounts create the greatest business risk?
- How much security expertise is available internally?
- How much log data can the organisation realistically review?
- Who will respond when noteworthy activity is identified?
Technology is only part of the problem
Collecting more data does not automatically improve security. Organisations also need understandable findings, appropriate prioritisation and a process for reviewing what has been identified.
AssayMark focuses on practical security analysis, contextual findings and explainable prioritisation for organisations that may not operate a traditional enterprise SOC stack.
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