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Using Advanced Event Correlation to Improve Enterprise Security Compliance and Business Posture

ArcSight

The threats to enterprises from attacks on the company’s infrastructure have never been greater. Whether by hostile intruders or malicious insiders, the devastation caused by worms, viruses, theft of intellectual property and confidential data, and other attacks can be very damaging—or even fatal to an organization.
Today’s IT teams are also working hard to achieve regulatory compliance with a wide range of corporate regulations, including Sarbanes-Oxley and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). IT analysts must optimize the enterprise’s IT infrastructure and processes to ease compliance with these financial reporting and medical information handling regulations.

To address these significant challenges, enterprises must be able to proactively detect and identify incidents and track them. IT specialists need solutions that can consolidate, analyze and correlate event information across their entire infrastructure to reduce risk and demonstrate compliance. But there are many challenges inherent in this analytical process and not all event management solutions are up to the challenge.ArcSight ESM was designed to solve the problems of capturing, analyzing, correlating and responding to massive amounts of event data. The added intelligence that is generated by ArcSight ESM can be used to detect and automatically respond to security incidents, automate and proactively manage compliance initiatives and to monitor and report on business risk.

This white paper will discuss the importance of using correlation when analyzing enterprise event data. It will then review the elements that form the basis of the ArcSight ESM analytical platform. The paper will also present scenarios utilizing correlation for event management and conclude with a checklist that can be used when evaluating potential event management and correlation solutions.

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