Anomaly Detection and Log Management: What we Can (and Can’t) Learn from the Financial Fraud Space
In this month’s Prism Microsystems newsletter I take a look at the differences between financial fraud and IT network and systems anomaly detection. Have you ever been in a store with an important purchase, rolled up to the cash register and handed over your card only to have it denied? You scramble to think why: “Has my identity been stolen?” “Is there something wrong with the...
Read MoreLook into SIEM Services
Neil Roiter has a piece over at Search MidMarket Security about assessing managed and SaaS SIEM solutions. “It’s critical that they understand your vertical — setting up SIEM in a healthcare environment is different than retail,” said Diana Kelley, partner and co-founder at consultancy Security Curve. “They’ve learned something over time about what’s...
Read MoreTurning Log Information into Business Intelligence
This month, for the Prism Microsystems Newsletter, I wrote about relationship mapping and getting the most intelligence out of your log management tool. Now that we’re past January, most of us have received all of our W2 and 1099 tax forms. We all know that it’s important to keep these forms until we’ve filed our taxes and most of us also keep the forms for seven years after filing in case...
Read MoreTime Won’t Give me Time: Log Mgmt and Time Synchronization
Below is an excerpt from Diana’s feature article for January’s Prism MicroSystems Newsletter: Does this sound familiar? You get off a late night flight and wearily make your way to your hotel. As you wait to check in, you look at the clocks behind the registration desk and do a double-take. Could it really be 3:24:57 PM in Sydney, 1:36:02 PM in Tokyo, and 11:30:18 PM in New York? Of...
Read MoreAnd Yet More Log Management!
The SecurityCurve December contribution to the Prism newsletter is Tuning Log Management and SIEM for Compliance Reporting. Reading over recent posts – we’ve been doing a lot on log management lately. Seasonal yule log jokes aside, I think this trend is due, at least in part, to the evolving maturity of the install base. Compliance drove broad adoption, but the work of tuning and...
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