Re: SIEM Tools

[Brad Judy <brad.judy () CU EDU>]

You’ve touched on one of the key pieces of the SIEM space: finding the sweet spot for your team on usability and 
configurability.

A more technical team/individual who wants to spend some time to tweak things might look more towards a Splunk or ELK 
based option. Skilled teams have made really cool things with solutions like these.

A team that wants to focus on out-of-the-box functions and is willing to put staff time on the triage side rather than 
config side, might go with a Logrythm type option.  Or similarly, perhaps a team that has one deeper tech and more SOC 
operator staff might want a solution designed around one person builds dashboards/searches and others review/respond to 
alerts.

IMO, in both cases the vendors (and often customers) undersell the amount of effort it takes to get something up and 
running from scratch to alerts with a decent signal to noise ratio (that also don’t have a lot of false negatives).

Like anything, it’s about figuring out what you want to accomplish, what resources you have now, and which path bridges 
the gap between present and future best for your team/organization.

Brad Judy

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Date: Monday, January 22, 2018 at 5:15 AM
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Subject: Re: [SECURITY] SIEM Tools

WE are currently using LogRhythm and are extremely happy.
We also did a POC of Splunk which seemed very good, however we felt that Splunk would require a larger team to manage 
since it required more programming and LogRhythm had many of these correlation rules built out of the box.

A further caution, I am not sure of your log volume but we started with a smaller system (Trigeo which was bought out 
by Solarwinds) and found that we outgrew it because it couldn’t scale.
Make sure whatever system you buy will scale to any future needs.

Seth

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We are using Splunk and it is a very versatile tool.
Cheers.-grish David Grisham
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Hi Michael. We have had good luck with Alert Logic. It combines log analysis and IDS functions and has been very 
valuable.

On Fri, Jan 19, 2018 at 9:48 PM Madl, Michael <michael.madl () indwes edu<mailto:michael.madl () indwes edu>> wrote:
I am currently reviewing several SIEM products [QRadar, Alien Vault, Log Rhythm etc.].

Can anyone share any success stories with the product they are utilizing.  I have utilized Alien Vault in the past and 
the correlation functionality is pretty good.  Threat detection is also done well.

Gartner has been a great tool for review but wondering if anyone had any strong feelings/experiences with certain tools.


Thank you in advance,


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