CSOonline: A buyers guide for SIEM products

Security information and event management software (SIEM) products have been an enduring part of enterprise software ever since the category was created back in 2005 by a couple of Gartner analysts. It is an umbrella term that defines a way to manage the deluge of event log data to help monitor an enterprise’s security posture and be an early warning of compromised or misbehaving applications. It grew out of a culture of log management tools that have been around for decades, reworked to focus on security situations. Modern SIEM products combine both on-premises and cloud log and access data along with using various API queries to help investigate security events and drive automated mitigation and incident response.

For CSOonline, I examined some of the issues for potential buyers of these tools and point out some of the major issues to differentiate them. This adds to a collection of other buyers guides of major security product categories:

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