THE EVOLUTION OF SIEMWhy it is critical to move beyond logs

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THE EVOLUTION OF SIEM

Despite increasing investments in security, breaches are still occurring at an alarming rate.

(RSA Cybersecurity Poverty Index, 2016) (RSA Threat Detection Effectiveness Survey, 2016)

(Verizon Data Breach Report, 2017)

of COMPANIES

COMPROMISED IN THE LAST YEAR

of ORGANIZATIONS ARE UNSATISFIED

WITH THEIR RESPONSE SPEED.

Compromises ARE MEASURED IN MINUTES OR LESS

98% OF THE TIME.

70 90

Traditional SIEMs have not evolved to meet the security challenge.

Log-centric SIEMs can’t defend against attacks.

RSA NetWitness® Suite addresses the gap left by log-centric SIEMs.

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Why it is critical to move beyond logs

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BEGINNING STATE

DESPITE INCREASING INVESTMENTS IN SECURITY,

GIVEN THE SPEED AT WHICH CYBER CRIMINALS ARE ABLE TO CREATE NEW SECURITY THREATS,

Whether the result of cyber criminals sending phishing or malware attacks through company emails, nation states targeting an organization’s IP, or insiders misusing sensitive data, we live in a world where prevention of breaches has become impossible. Successful attacks bypass each layer of prevention that we have put in place because they often use valid user credentials, trusted access paths, or new exploits, thus going unnoticed by our preventative controls.

BREACHES ARE STILL OCCURRING AT AN ALARMING RATE.

COMPANIES MUST CHANGE THEIR APPROACH TO SECURITY.

Reality of living in the pre-evolution security world

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BRINK OF EXTINCTION

SIEM systems were orginally intended for compliance and log management.

Later they were used to detect and investigate attacks. However, log-centric

SIEMs have several flaws that make it difficult to detect successful attacks

and even more difficult to investigate them.

IN FACT, 99% OF SUCCESSFUL CYBER-ESPIONAGE ATTACKS WENT UNDISCOVERED BY LOGS.

Log-centric SIEMs give security personnel some level visibility of what is going

on across the enterprise by connecting the dots between anomalies within the

different layers of defense via logs. However, logs lack deep visibility and detail

to understand what is truly happening in an environment.

Traditional SIEMs have not evolved to meet the security challenge

(SOURCE: VERIZON BREACH REPORT 2014)

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THE NEED TO EVOLVE

Since companies have no choice but to allow some traffic to pass through all layers

of defense in order to do business, traffic will need to flow through preventative

controls. Logs only tell part of the story of what traffic makes it through. Log-centric

SIEMs can only report on what the preventative controls have identified.

However, they are unable to detect and investigate attack techniques such as

unusual client activity, protocol anomalies, unauthorized connections, and

suspected malware activity.

As organizations add more preventative controls, the amount of data and events generated can overwhelm

even the most mature security teams. This leads to even more noise, increasing the likelihood that the signals

(clues about an attack) will get lost or take too long to spot.

“Use of advanced SIEM features resulted in an average savings of nearly $3 million”

Log centric SIEMs can’t defend against attacks

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(Source: 2016 Cost of Cyber Crime Study & the Risk of Business Innovation by Ponemon)

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THE EVOLUTION IS HEREMoving beyond log-centric SIEM

RSA NETWITNESS® SUITE ADDRESSES THE LOG-CENTRIC SIEM PROBLEM IN A VERY UNIQUE WAY.

SPOT ANOMALOUS BEHAVIOR OF THREAT ACTORS VERSUS LEGITIMATE

USERS AND INVESTIGATE THESE ATTACKS.

By capturing raw packet data and amplifying the value of the this data with Capture Time

Data Enrichment and machine learning methodologies that distinguish anomalous behavior,

RSA NetWitness Suite will spot advanced threats that bypass preventative controls. Unlike

a traditional SIEM, RSA NetWitness Suite provides deeper visibility and security context to

reconstruct events and attacker TTPs (Tactics, Techniques and Procedures) to stop the attackers

before they compromise the organization. Ultimately, RSA NetWitness Suite helps

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SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEEST

RSA NETWITNESS® SUITE

IS THE ONLY PLATFORM THAT CAN CORRELATE SECURITY DATA ACROSS LOGS,

PACKETS AND ENDPOINTS WITH REAL-TIME BEHAVIOR ANALYTIC CAPABILITIES

TO SPEED DETECTION AND RESPONSE.

Event correlation can now occur between a mix of logs, packets and endpoints that enables

analysts with leading indicators and in-depth views of threats that bypassed preventative

controls. This offers organizations a unified platform to speed detection and response,

investigations, compliance reporting, and behavior analytics to spot anomalous behavior.

WITH RSA NETWITNESS® SUITE, SECURITY TEAMS CAN GO FROM AN ALERT TO INVESTIGATION

TO RESPONSE FASTER AND WITH MORE DETAIL THAN ANY OTHER TOOL.

This is what your SIEM was meant to be

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