Manage security in real time

SIEMs like a good idea


You face more, and more dangerous threats every day - drive-by infections, APTs, executive targeted phishing to name three. At the same time, the potential attack surface of IT systems are growing rapidly: your VMs, your cloud, your users’ mobile devices are all at risk. You have probably spent a large part of 2014 developing external-facing web applications. How do you secure them all?

Reg readers tell us they have multiple tools handling security, making it impossible to get an idea of security in real time. Operating best-effort security isn’t enough, but Security Information and event Management (SIEM), touted as the answer to this, has so far been complicated to set up and hard to interpret.

Has this changed? Is SIEM the future of enterprise security and, if so, what will that future look like? Raj Samani, CTO from McAfee of Intel Security, explains how SIEM can work, what it does, and how to fit it into your existing security environment. Tony Lock from Freeform Dynamics joined him, and Tim Phillips put your questions to the experts. You can now view this event, on demand, here.