Advanced SIEM Tools And Strategies Strengthen Business Network Security During This Vulnerable Covid19 Situation

Compelling employees to work from home, this critical pandemic situation has left business networks vulnerable to more cyber-attacks than ever. With lack of control over employee network and security practices, businesses need to overcome multitude of challenges faced by phishing emails, manipulative VPNs, files and data sharing, WiFi security and more.

With cyber-attacks becoming more sophisticated and complex, the need to implement SIEM in the business network is of utmost importance. Advanced SIEM modules for data aggregation collect data to identify and prevent malicious attacks, log management collects log data from multiple endpoints with subsequent mitigation, Security Event Correlation allows log data analysis across network applications, systems, and devices and Threat Intelligence provides safety of all organizational assets.

Providing information on potential cyber-attacks and risks, SIEM implementation and tweaking according to the changing requirements overcomes challenges specific to the Covid-19 pandemic situation and helps safeguard businesses.

About LTS Secure:

LTS Secure is an Integrated Security Platform (SIEM + UEBA + CASB + IDM) that enables continuous monitoring & detection of Threats, Vulnerabilities and Risk of IT Network, Applications and by Users in a single pane based on Security Orchestration, Automation and Response.

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What is AI and ML SIEM Tool and How it Monitor Your Network

Information theft is a big business and protecting corporate information that features project deals and trade secrets is a bit of a challenge. Hence, information management is a necessary component of any program. That is where Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) monitoring comes into play.

What is SIEM?

Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) is a technology for cyber security that provides real-time analysis of security alerts generated by hardware as well as network applications.

AI and ML SIEM monitoring support earliest threat detection and fastest security incident response through the real-time collection and historical analysis of security events that are compiled from a broad variety of event and contextual data sources. SIEM tools also support compliance reporting and incident investigation via historical data analysis from the sources.

LTS Secure’s AI and ML SIEM are capable of offering an effective and efficient means to monitor your network round the clock. Continuous monitoring from SIEM as a service includes all devices, servers, applications, users, and infrastructure components.

How do SIEM works?

You may spend a lot of money buying a SIEM) product from your trustworthy SIEM vendors but if you do not follow through and use the SIEM properly, SIEM monitoring functionality and SIEM tools will fail to protect your information.

SIEM as a service monitor at your network through a larger lens than can be provided by a single security control or information source. For example:

Asset Management functionality of SIEM monitoring would oversee business processes, applications, and administrative contacts.

Network Intrusion Detection System (IDS) is a SIEM tool that only understands Packets, Protocols, and IP Addresses.

The Endpoint Security system is a functionality of SIEM as a service monitoring only sees files, usernames, and hosts.

Service Logs of SIEM monitoring show database transactions, user sessions, and configuration changes.

File Integrity Monitoring (FIM) systems SIEM tool only see the changes in files and registry settings.

SIEM Benefits

The benefits of AI and ML SIEM monitoring are as follows:

• Streamline compliance reporting: This is the most important benefit offered by SIEM as a service tools. It streamlines their compliance reporting and efforts through a centralized logging solution. Any host that needs to have the log of its security events included in the reporting can regularly transfer its log data to a SIEM server.
• Detect incidents that would otherwise not be detected: Some incidents can be detected only by AI and ML SIEM tools. This is because of two reasons. First, many hosts that log security events do not have built-in incident detection capabilities. Hence, they lack the ability to analyze the log entries and there is no guarantee of identifying signs of malicious activity. The second reason for AI and ML SIEMs’ advanced detection capabilities is that they can correlate events across hosts. By gathering events from hosts across the enterprise, a SIEM tool can see attacks that have different parts seen by different hosts. After that, it can reconstruct the series of events to determine what the nature of the attack was and whether or not it succeeded. After SIEM tools examine the log data for all events, they can figure out malware infection in the device that due to infection joined a botnet and started attacks against other hosts. They can also stop cyber attacks in progress. On the detection of any activity involving known malicious hosts, SIEM tools can terminate the connections of those hosts. They can also disrupt interactions between malicious hosts’ and organization‘s hosts in order to prevent an attack before it occurs.
• Improve the efficiency of incident handling activities: SIEM tools increase the efficiency of incident handling, which in turn saves time and resources for incident handlers. More efficient incident handling speeds up the process of incident containment. Hence, it reduces the amount of damage that many incidents cause. SIEM monitoring improves efficiency by providing a single interface for viewing all the security log data from many hosts.

What Is SOAR And The Many Benefits That It Brings

 With the increasing number of cyber threats being faced by organizations, it has become crucial for them to effectively detect & respond to such activities before it can lead to any sort of breach. This task is further made more challenging, due to the volume of alerts being generated by various security solutions such as SIEM, UEBA, EDR, EPP, etc. Each of these generated alerts are then required to be manually reviewed, analyzed and if deemed necessary, taken action upon, causing the productivity & efficiency of an organization’s SOC to go down.

Enter SOAR

SOAR (Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response) is a security solution, enablesorganizations to collect security & threat related data from a wide variety of sources and allows them to automate response to low-level security incidents.

Orchestration – Improves efficiency when executing remediation.

Automation – Reduces time to take action (makes orchestration process more efficient). Response – Plans, manages, coordinates and monitors response to a security incident.

LTS Secure SOAR and its Benefits

 Integrating our SOAR solution into your existing security stack, enables you to define, prioritize & standardize functions that respond to security incidents, thus allowing you to identify security related issues, define the solution and help automate the response, causing your overall efficiency to rise while making security more self-operating. This integration also ensures that incidents & vulnerabilities are responded to quickly, allowing security teams to better prioritize their time.

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How Integrating SIEM With SOAR Enhances The Effectiveness Of A SOC

 Building a productive & fully functioning SOC is crucial for every organization due to the current threat landscape. Threat actors are becoming more sophisticated by each passing day, leaving almost no trace of familiar patterns in their attacks, forcing SOC teams to use their full potential.

To do so, SOC teams need to bring efficiency into their processes, while also improving their incident response strategies, all of which are getting hampered by the sheer number of security alerts generated by their security solutions like SIEM.

 

Why do SOC teams need SOAR if they already have a SIEM?

 For SIEMs to differentiate between normal & suspicious, it needs to be periodically upgraded & tuned, which is typically done by engineers & analysts. However, responding to a plethora of alerts triggered by a SIEM still remains a manual process. For every alert generated, analysts need to review & investigate it, determining if the alert is a false positive or an actual incident that requires further investigation & remediation, which again is a manual process.

While most SIEMs possess a wide range of capabilities, they were not created to unify technologies, processes & people within a SOC. This is exactly where a SOAR solution comes into play.

While SIEM takes care of detecting potential security incidents & generates alerts for them, SOAR takes these alerts to the next level by triaging data, responding to them & taking remediation steps where deemed necessary, thus adding significant value to the existing SIEM solution being used.

 

LTS Secure SOAR

LTS Secure SOAR is a perfect solution for organizations that want to streamline their security operations while increasing the overall efficiency of their SOC. The solution does this by centralizing & triaging alerts from various security solutions, automating threat analysis and repetitive tasks, saving valuable time & resources of SOC teams.

With numerous out-of-the-box connectors and easy-to-configure playbooks, LTS Secure SOAR can easily be integrated with all major security solutions, providing a single centralized point of visibility with advanced case management capabilities, asset correlation view and automated response for security incidents.

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Validating Access Rights Within Systems

 A key component of IT infrastructure that controls, manages and audits the security framework, Access Recertification provides central visibility and compliance on various roles with the security architecture. Not only does it improve audit processes, it also automates and simplifies revalidating an account, allows approving roles, accounts and groups for specialized users within a single activity. Access recertification ensures that organizations internal policies and compliance regulations are being adhered by auditing users’ access privileges

Our solution helps organizations mitigate access risks, reduce review time and enables you to act immediately to correct any unwanted or unauthorized permissions, preventing unwarranted access.

​With major benefits, LTS Secure Access Recertification;

• Allows IT & Security teams to ensure that resources that were assigned to user’s, were only had the required permissions for the correct period of time.
• Helps comply with compliance requirements like PCI-DSS and ISO 27001.
• Significant reduction in costs due to potential security incident been avoided.

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