Beginners Guide to SIEM

Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) platforms provide real-time correlation of events generated from network security controls. Our security gurus will explain what SIEM is (and isn’t) and how to get up and running with it quickly and painlessly.

You’ll learn everything you need to know about:

  • Critical information stored in your logs and how to leverage it for better security
  • Requirements to effectively perform log collection, log management, and log correlation
  • How to integrate multiple data sources
  • What features to look for in a SIEM solution

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Insider’s Guide to Incident Response

The Insider’s Guide to Incident Response gives you an in-depth look at the fundamental strategies of efficient and effective incident response for security teams that need to do more with less in today’s rapidly changing threat landscape.

In this guide, you’ll learn about:

  • Arming & Aiming Your Incident Response Team
  • Incident Response Process & Procedures
  • Types of Security Incidents
  • Incident Response Tools
  • Incident Response Training

The fight to protect your company’s data isn’t for the faint of heart. And when it comes to the worst-case scenario, you’ll need all the help you can get. That’s why we’ve developed the Insider’s Guide to Incident Response. It will give you an insider’s perspective on how to build an incident response plan and develop a team armed with the right tools and training to combat serious threats to your network.

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5 Steps to Implement & Maintain PCI DSS Compliance

For most small to medium sized organizations, it doesn’t have to be as long as you have the right plan and tools in place. In this paper you’ll learn five steps to implement and maintain PCI DSS compliance at your organization by:

  • Determining your true business requirements
  • Inventorying locations and assets
  • Segmenting environments
  • Operationalizing controls
  • Automating controls and control reporting

Demonstrating compliance with PCI DSS is far from a trivial exercise. This checklist will help you on your quest to achieve and maintain PCI DSS compliance.

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GDPR Compliance Checklist: A 9-Step Guide

This GDPR compliance checklist lays out 9 steps you can take now to best prepare for the new regulations, including:Implementing a SIEM tool with compliance-adhering log management capabilities Taking an inventory of critical assets with sensitive data…

Forrester Study: The Total Economic Impact of USM Anywhere

AlienVault® commissioned Forrester Consulting to conduct a Total Economic Impact™ (TEI) study and examine the potential return on investment (ROI) organizations may realize by deploying the AlienVault Unified Security Management® (USM) platform.

Based on in-depth customer interviews and their own analysis, Forrester determined that a representative composite customer could realize significant benefits deploying the AlienVault solution. Here’s a look inside the study:

  • 80% Improvement in Threat Detection and Incident Response time
  • 2000 hours saves per audit (=94% Reduction)
  • 6x Return on Investment

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6 Steps to SIEM Success

Whether your goals are to:Detect Threats Achieve ComplianceFuel Incident Response(or all of the above), these six steps to SIEM success will guide your team through key considerations to prepare for your SIEM deployment and choose a solution that will …

Frost & Sullivan: Practitioner’s Guide to Building a Security Operations Center

A well-developed and well-run SOC can perform real-time threat detection and incident response, with SOC analysts that can deliver rapid security intelligence to stakeholders and senior management, identifying when an attack starts, who is attacking, how the attack is being conducted, and what data or systems are being compromised.

For many organizations, especially those that don’t fall into the “large enterprise” category, building an in-house SOC can be a daunting task. This paper examines the tools, personnel and processes required to build and operate an effective SOC, along with an analysis of how organizations can leverage the AlienVault Unified Security Management (USM) platform as the foundation for a SOC.

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