The PLUG IT managed SIEM solution monitors your entire IT security Environment, Including On-premise, Cloud, Devices, Applications, Networks,
Infrastructure and Users. We provide a comprehensive and specialized Managed SIEM service which runs on Microsoft Security technology.

We understand the need for security in today’s modern world, with every email sent or any event taking place using a computer, the need for a trusted partner overseeing your environment is essential. You never know what you need until you need it. Our Managed SIEM solution includes 24/7 monitoring, personalised  reporting, analysis and incident management complete with a comprehensive report on your security posture.

SIEM stands for security information and event management and provides organizations with next-generation detection, analytics and response. SIEM software combines security information management (SIM) and security event management (SEM) to provide real-time analysis of security alerts generated by applications and network hardware.

SIEM stands for security information and event management and provides organizations with next-generation detection, analytics and response. SIEM software combines security information management (SIM) and security event management (SEM) to provide real-time analysis of security alerts generated by applications and network hardware. SIEM software matches events against rules and analytics engines and indexes them for sub-second search to detect and analyze advanced threats using globally gathered intelligence. This gives security teams both insight into and a track record of the activities within their IT environment by providing data analysis, event correlation, aggregation, reporting and log management.

SIEM software can have a number of features and benefits, including:

• Consolidation of multiple data points
• Custom dashboards and alert workflow management 
• Integration with other products

SIEM works by collecting log and event data generated by an organizations applications, security devices and host systems and bringing it together into a single centralized platform. SIEM gathers data from antivirus events, firewall logs and other locations; it sorts this data into categories, for example: malware activity and failed and successful logins. When SIEM identifies a threat through network security monitoring, it generates an alert and defines a threat level based on predetermined rules. For example, someone trying to log into an account 10 times in 10 minutes is ok, while 100 times in 10 minutes might be flagged as an attempted attack. In this way it detects threats and creates security alerts. SIEM’s custom dashboards and event management system improves investigative efficiency and reduces time wasted on false-positives.

SIEM has a range of capabilities that, when combined and integrated, offer comprehensive protection for organizations. This is also made easier and more efficient by being brought together into one dashboard. SIEM provides enterprise security by offering enterprise visibility – the entire network of devices and apps.

The software allows security teams to gain attacker insights with threat rules derived from insight into attacker tactics, techniques and procedures (TTPs) and known indicators of compromise (IOC)s. To do this it uses multiple threat intelligence feeds (organized and analyzed information on potential and current threats) which supplements threat detection.

The threat detection element itself can help to detect threats in emails, cloud resources, application, external threat intelligence sources and endpoints. This can include user and entity behavior analytics (UEBA) which analyzes behaviors and activities to monitor for abnormal behaviors which could indicate a threat. It can also detect behavior anomalies, lateral movement and compromised accounts.

This is similar to the security analytics component which detects anomalies in data to derive inform hunting for previously unseen threats.

The managed rules component allows organizations to react almost in real-time to the latest attacker techniques with near real-time updates from analysts.

Once SIEM software determines a threat, vulnerability, attack or suspicious behavior it creates alerts for an organization’s security teams for prompt response. Some versions of the software include workflow and case management to accelerate investigations using automatically generated step-by-step investigation instructions with searches and actions to perform. SIEM alerts can also be customized to fit user needs.

Log management is a complex component of SIEM, comprised of three main areas:

1. Data aggregation: gathering vast amounts of data from various applications and databases into one place.
2. Data normalization: SIEM allows for all the disparate data to be compared, correlated and analyzed.
3. Data analysis/security event correlation: Determining potential signs of a data breach, threat, attack or vulnerability.

SIEM also supports compliance and alert reporting. It helps organizations to simplify compliance reporting with data dashboards to retain and organise event information and monitor privileged user access. This is important because most industrial and governmental regulations (including HIPAA) require some degree of log compilation and normalization, and all require reporting.

SIEM works by collecting log and event data generated by an organizations applications, security devices and host systems and bringing it together into a single centralized platform. SIEM gathers data from antivirus events, firewall logs and other locations; it sorts this data into categories, for example: malware activity and failed and successful logins. When SIEM identifies a threat through network security monitoring, it generates an alert and defines a threat level based on predetermined rules. For example, someone trying to log into an account 10 times in 10 minutes is ok, while 100 times in 10 minutes might be flagged as an attempted attack. In this way it detects threats and creates security alerts. SIEM’s custom dashboards and event management system improves investigative efficiency and reduces time wasted on false-positives.

• No Software costs
• Dashboard Access
• Custom detection & automation
• Programmatic remediation
• Infinitely scalable
• AI based analytics
• Up to 90 days data storage included
• Proactive real time alerting
• Custom and policy based detections
• Correlated analysis of billions of security events
• Flexible 8/5 or 24/7 monitoring

We offer SIEM as a service in two plans which are billed monthly as a fixed service fee.

Schedule a call with one of our experts.