White Papers for Basel II Capital Accord (Basel II)

Security Information Management: A critical security component for organizations of all sizes

Trigeo

The idea of aggregating log data into a single location is not new. Aggregating and reviewing logs is something that large organizations have been doing for years. But when enterprises of all sizes started deploying Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) into the enterprise, the large amount of events coming into the network made the devices almost useless. For the first time the problems of false positives and data overwhelm reached
down into smaller organizations.
Since that time, a variety of commercial vendors have entered the market offering devices that not only collect log data from a variety of hardware and software sources, but perform correlation functions on that data, attempting to filter the most important events and to ensure that security alerts are warranted.
This white paper looks at the environmental factors that make a SIM device appealing to organizations. It will also evaluate some of the challenges that prevent many that make a SIM device appealing to organizations. It will also evaluate some of the challenges that prevent many

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