Let’s say you recently acquired a security information and event Management (SIEM) solution and have a new layer of defense in the war against cybercriminals. What comes next?
Gaining Quick Time to Value from Your Deployment
During the sales process, a strategic security partner should have guided you through what the onboarding process would look like, your options for a quick and easy deployment, and how to get the most value out of your investment. They need to set up reasonable expectations before the onboarding process begins, and you should have a clear understanding that there is more work ahead once you purchase a SIEM.
Most organizations can’t implement and maintain a new security platform all alone. That’s why professional services (PS) are so important to get the new system up and running successfully. Useful PS consultants help you strategize the most important logs to ingest into the SIEM first, while also teaching your employees how to effectively do that work in the future.
Once the logs are in place, there is still more work to be done. Logs tend to be chatty and need to be taught to only pass the information that the system needs, so that analysts can make quick and accurate decisions or to fit into automated rule sets...Read More!
