Showing posts with label Professional Company advise. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Professional Company advise. Show all posts

Monday, September 7, 2020

Siem Tools For Top Management

 Security Information and Event Manager (SIEM) is a software and service that combines the best of both worlds: security management and event management in one system. SIem is a security management approach that combines events, threats and risk data in individual systems to improve the detection and resolution of security problems and provide an additional layer of defense.

The use of SIEM can be enormously helpful, but it requires the security of business processes and data to be taken into account in order to use the tools as effectively as possible. Using the tool with default settings generates substantial data and warnings, and adapting the tool to the specific needs of your business, business process and risk management will lead to improved results. SIem tools collect data from multiple systems and analyze it to detect abnormal behavior and potential cyber attacks. They embed important parts of a data security ecosystem into a single platform, such as a web application, database, or cloud service.

Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) is a software solution that combines and analyzes activities from many different resources across the entire IT infrastructure. SIem tools provide a central place to collect events and alerts, but they can be expensive and resource intensive. Some customers report that it is often difficult to solve problems with SIEMS data.

SIEMS can apply analysis to this data to detect trends, identify threats, and enable organizations to investigate alerts. Security Information and Event Management (SEM), which analyzes event and protocol data to facilitate the management of security events and alarms across the entire IT infrastructure. It combines the ability of a SIM security information management SIM to collect, report, analyze and report logs and data with the capabilities of a SIEM tool such as a database, analytics tool or web application.

SIEM tools provide real-time security monitoring - related events and incidents such as failed logins, network outages and security breaches. SIEM software logs the data generated by enterprise technology infrastructures such as servers, networks, databases, web applications, mobile devices and network infrastructure.

If the analysis shows that an activity is outside the predefined rules and thus potentially compromises security, a warning is sent to the SIEM system.

This enables real-time situational awareness, so that the company can detect, understand and respond to hidden threats. ESM is a powerful tool to use real-time data correlation to dramatically reduce the time it takes to detect, respond and protect the business. This alerts the SIEM system and the IT Security Management System (ITMS) with suspicious activities.

This is combined with the real-time data correlation between the SIEM system and the IT Security Management System (ITMS) to identify outliers and respond with appropriate measures.

For over a decade, SIEM systems have come a long way from simple protocol management to integrated machine learning and analytics. Event management focuses on incidents that can pose a threat to the system, such as malicious code attempting to enter, while information management deals with real-time monitoring and analysis of data in the IT Security Management System (ITMS).

Given the multitude of tasks that SIEM solutions perform, their integration into a company's existing information security architecture can be daunting, especially when it involves multiple different centers spread across the globe. Protocols from all sources within an organization are likely to be incorporated into the IT Security Management System (ITMS) and other IT management systems.

The compromise is that administrators must perform integration actions to tell SIEM software how to analyze and process the types of protocols an organization collects. If you choose an alternative approach, almost all SIem systems offer the ability to create protocols from commonly used protocol sources such as protocols of the IT Security Management System (ITMS) and other IT management systems. Since each organization has a unique combination of log sources, those looking for the best SIEMS software for their organization should be able to build an inventory of all the logbooks in their system and compare that inventory with support for each of the supported log sources. SI EM tools are more flexible and support almost any logSource.

Security experts in companies have abandoned traditional protocol management systems such as ITMS and IT Security Management System. The evolving log - management root has introduced a new generation of SIEM tools for top management and security management.

These tools have the ability to monitor threats and provide real-time alerts regarding security. SIEM technology has been around for a long time and initially developed from log management discipline to security management tools such as ITMS, IT Security Management System and IT Management Systems, but has evolved from the original log management disciplines to network management, network security, data security and network management systems (NMS). SIem Software is a combination of a number of different tools for top management and security management. 

 

Tuesday, August 25, 2020

Security Automation

 


Fear, one of the most powerful drivers of all time. Movies, novels, companies, even I had the unfortunate chance to hear the following phrase directed to a coworker: " I can replace you with a script and I will save money".

Automation is the new catchy word in the industrial environment, we see it everywhere: in car factories, coal mines, banks, even in the airports where tasks related to security are being transferred to automatic tellers. But is this suitable for all commercial environments?, the answer is partially.

Humans are valuable (not costly as some executives like to view them) by their decision making capabilities and a new evolution process has been taking place all over the world, thinking people are getting hired, and mechanical people are getting displaced. It is not a matter of justice nor survival, it is a matter of cost vs profit.


Is automation in security viable?

Yes it is but in a partial way, everyday hackers all over the world bypass security controls designed and maintained by fellow humans, automated systems are predictable (which is a terrible word in the business), we can automate tools and monitors but security intelligence? that's not automatable.

No matter how complex is the algorithm (computer process), the fact that all possible routes are programmed means there will be a thousand ways to bypass it, human ingenuity and logic is paramount to stop cyber-criminals.

Don't take me wrong, every company should invest in security means and tools to aid the process and some automation is necessary to analyze the tens of thousands of transactions the average enterprise performs daily, but every machine, every analyzer in the market will depend on search patterns and every search pattern will cause a situation known to security professionals: false positives and negatives.

A false positive is an event which triggers an alarm but is not a situation worthy TO INVESTIGATE, like a common employee performing a click on a file he is not authorized to and not getting access.

A false negative is a situation where the alarm should be triggered but it is not like the employee in question getting access to the file he has not been authorized to read/change/delete.

These factors are part of the everyday work of a cybersec engineer and a great deal of our training, human instincts become the differentiator to detect the anomalous behavior.

Then what can automation do?

To detect these factors which allows us to identify the possible intrusions, we would have to manually check all servers under our watch. which would severely raise the amount of people involved, instead the security orchestration tools allow us to see the activity in various fronts even in a graphical way enabling a major coverage on our duties.

In words of Eran Barak, CEO and Co-Founder, Hexadite: "All of these security automation technologies free up overtaxed security resources, allowing security teams to be less focused on mundane – but essential – tasks, and more focused on strategic initiatives that will make their organization more secure. "

Automation needs to be seen as a tool and as any tool it is only good for the person trained to use it, we cannot expect to take in someone trained to be a network technician and takeover cybersec without so much than a manual.


Resources

https://www.securityweek.com/five-steps-security-automation

https://www.dflabs.com/blog/security-automation-vs-security-orchestration-whats-the-difference/

https://www.darkreading.com/operations/the-best-and-worst-tasks-for-security-automation/d/d-id/1332074

https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2019/04/16/it-security-automation-skills/

https://www.information-age.com/staff-skill-shortages-security-study-123473231/

Tuesday, July 30, 2019

Security Automation: The end of the InfoSec Professionals?

Fear, one of the most powerful drivers of all time. Movies, novels, companies, even I had the unfortunate chance to hear the following phrase directed to a coworker: " I can replace you with a script and I will save money".
Automation is the new catchy word in the industrial environment, we see it everywhere: in car factories, coal mines, banks, even in the airports where tasks related to security are being transferred to automatic tellers. But is this suitable for all commercial environments?, the answer is partially.
Humans are valuable (not costly as some executives like to view them) by their decision making capabilities and a new evolution process has been taking place all over the world, thinking people are getting hired, and mechanical people are getting displaced. It is not a matter of justice nor survival, it is a matter of cost vs profit.

Is automation in security viable?


Yes it is but in a partial way, everyday hackers all over the world bypass security controls designed and maintained by fellow humans, automated systems are predictable (which is a terrible word in the business), we can automate tools and monitors but security intelligence? that's not automatable.
No matter how complex is the algorithm (computer process), the fact that all possible routes are programmed means there will be a thousand ways to bypass it, human ingenuity and logic is paramount to stop cybercriminals.

Don't take me wrong, every company should invest in security means and tools to aid the process and some automation is necessary to analyze the tens of thousands of transactions the average enterprise performs daily, but every machine, every analyzer in the market will depend on search patterns and every search pattern will cause a situation known to security professionals: false positives and negatives.

A false positive is an event which triggers an alarm but is not a situation worthy on it, like a common employee performing a click on a file he is not authorized to and not getting access.

A false negative is a situation where the alarm should be triggered but it is not like the employee in question getting access to the file he has not been authorized to read/change/delete.

These factors are part of the everyday work of a cybersec engineer and a great deal of our training, human instincts become the differentiator to detect the anomalous behavior.

Then what can automation do?

 To detect these factors which allows us to identify the possible intrusions, we would have to manually check  all servers under our watch. which would severely raise the amount of people involved, instead the security orchestration tools allow us to see the activity in various fronts even in a graphical way enabling a major coverage on our duties.
In words of Eran Barak, CEO and Co-Founder, Hexadite: "All of these security automation technologies free up overtaxed security resources, allowing security teams to be less focused on mundane – but essential – tasks, and more focused on strategic initiatives that will make their organization more secure. " [1]
Automation needs to be seen as a tool and as any tool it is only good for the person trained to use it, we cannot expect to take in someone trained to be a network technician and takeover cybersec whithout so much than a manual.



Resources

https://www.securityweek.com/five-steps-security-automation
https://www.dflabs.com/blog/security-automation-vs-security-orchestration-whats-the-difference/
https://www.darkreading.com/operations/the-best-and-worst-tasks-for-security-automation/d/d-id/1332074
https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2019/04/16/it-security-automation-skills/
https://www.information-age.com/staff-skill-shortages-security-study-123473231/




[1]. Explaining security automation and its evolving definitions, Network World September 2016
https://www.networkworld.com/article/3121275/explaining-security-automation-and-its-evolving-definitions.html

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