Events, alerts, data – they flood in rapidly, overloading your IT team. You feel pressure to respond to everything as quickly as you can, but sorting through it all takes time.
If this sounds like you, it doesn’t have to. Managed security information and event management, or SIEM as a service (SIEMaaS), is one way to take the burden off your team, while still delivering excellent cybersecurity for your organization.
What is SIEM as a Service?
SIEMaaS is a highly valued way to outsource information and event management. You need a trusted and experienced company to take on the burden of collecting and analyzing this deluge of collected data. If you choose the right partner, they’ll only need your time and attention when their highly trained and certified analysts identify a credible threat.
You don’t know what you don’t know.
Cybersecurity can often feel like a guessing game. When events start flowing in at an overwhelming rate, it can be hard to know where to look or where to start.
Investing in managed SIEM reduces response time. How? Our security operations center experts know how to onboard the right data sources from the beginning and can help interpret the data into an easy-to-understand risk report. Hundreds of certified experts at ECS bring their analytical experience reviewing and responding to your cybersecurity information and events. Our team operates under service-level agreements (SLA) guaranteeing response times of an hour or less.
You have analysis paralysis.
You’ve got a SIEM solution, and it’s collecting data – now what? Staring at a stream of rapidly scrolling details can be overwhelming, and you might feel like you don’t know where to start. It’s hard to tune out the irrelevant noise of all the events flowing in. Moreover, you still have to figure out which are the real threats over the false positives.
At ECS, our trained and certified experts are familiar with event fatigue. They know how to prioritize critical events while tuning out low severity-level events. When our analysts notice suspicious activity, we immediately initiate a thorough investigation, collecting all the data needed to prove or disprove that an activity is malicious. We correlate and compare the data to formulate actionable insights, which gives us the confidence to be decisive in our response and the ability to be prescriptive with our recommendations.
Additionally, when you pair SIEMaaS with other capabilities like security operations, automation, and response (SOAR) and extended detection and response (XDR), we quickly query those endpoints, identifying things like whether the endpoint has the latest patch, if they have a malicious file, and get data back in real time, giving you better visibility and control, faster.
You have a skill and labor shortage.
Many organizations are forcing their IT experts to wear a cybersecurity hat in addition to their other responsibilities. Your team may not have the skills or capacity to handle these important cybersecurity responsibilities. You know your focus needs to be elsewhere in order to help the business operate smoothly.
Another reason you might decide it’s time to turn to a service provider for SIEM is if your priorities are constantly pulling you away from cybersecurity matters. In today’s environment, cybersecurity can’t be ignored. Additionally, SIEM is a niche solution and it may not make sense for your organization to spend time and resources managing logging capabilities.
Investing in managed SIEM offloads time-consuming tasks like reviewing and responding to suspicious activity. We have hundreds of cybersecurity experts who are highly skilled, qualified, and have experience managing SEIM events. Our team can handle cybersecurity analysis while you focus on running your business.
Managed SIEM Protects Your Organization
If the scenarios above sound familiar, it might be time to look into SIEMaaS. Working with a trusted provider can improve your visibility and control, decrease your time to value for your existing solutions, and reduce the time it takes to remediate any issues.
