The Limitations of SIM Technology
Every organization faces an uphill battle when trying to decipher real activity made by users, taking place on systems, using a wide variety of applications within the enterprise. Event logs get generated on UNIX hosts, firewalls, routers, databases and servers. This information is very important to monitor for security, compliance, and to increase uptime of systems.
Network SIM and SIEM solutions are designed to monitor security event logs to detect threats from outside the firewall. Perimeter defense is a solid security tactic for identifying hackers attempting to get into the network. However, once hackers are past the perimeter defense layer, network SIM tools are of little use. Insiders that get comfortable with their access privileges and pilfer intellectual assets for personal gain can also be invisible to SIM tools. SIM tools are not designed to identify threats from inside the firewall.
SIM tools are also not able to provide valuable information about system failures, critical application errors, or detect active directory specific issues. This requires a detailed understanding of Windows Description Fields, and other valuable active directory event knowledge. These are just a few examples of the limitations of network SIM tools.
Network Event Log Management with LogClarity®
Any good security plan includes regular monitoring of the network which includes firewalls and other devices. Without monitoring these devices network security teams wouldn’t know when their networks were under attack. They also would be very slow at responding to outages, or other network failures. Syslog events have been a part of network security and event log management and security for a long time. Many organizations rely on collecting syslogs for firewalls, routers, switches, and UNIX systems.
LogClarity® Syslog Edition is designed to collect, centralize, and normalize event logs from firewalls, routers, switches, and UNIX systems automatically. LogClarity® archives event log data into a highly searchable format to enable intelligent alerts, powerful reporting and forensic capabilities. LogClarity® supplies security administrators with the intelligent log management of Windows event logs, along with the dependable syslog support, all in one solution.
LogClarity® provides an easy to use Enterprise Dashboard to be able to configure, manage, and respond to network or system incidents on the fly. LogClarity® comes with pre-defined alerts for syslog events. These alerts identify network issues, system failures and application errors quickly, to increase uptime and performance. Full incident detection capabilities are available to identify security threats instantly, including automated response measures. LogClarity® provides an entire infrastructure dedicated to assisting network security teams with understanding incidents, including remediation status and procedures.
The LogClarity® Syslog Edition features fast and secure event log collection and monitoring which is unrivaled in the industry. A solid blend of intelligence and automation is LogClarity®’s best solution for the entire log management lifecycle challenges that security administrators face.