7 REASONS EXISTING SIEM

IS NOT ENOUGH

THE
CHALLENGES
ARE CLEAR

For many enterprises, SIEM has evolved

into a ubiquitous and useful tool. It is
meant to detect, correlate and alert
users to potential threats. In fact, it is
an excellent tool to collect and
aggregate information in real-time from
across the enterprise and present an
actionable review of security-critical
issues...

HOWEVER

7 REASONS EXISTING SIEM

IS NOT ENOUGH

Current SIEM deployments

struggle with

THE
CHALLENGES
ARE CLEAR

Bottlenecks of information
Lack of headcount or expertise to
properly
investigate all the data in a timely
manner
Inability to centrally analyze all the
silos of
security data
Detection of usage patterns from a
multiplicity
of changing and varied devices,
sources
Escalation cost of maintenance and
fine
tuning

7 REASONS EXISTING SIEM

IS NOT ENOUGHLets take a more detailed look

1.
FIXED
DEPLOYMEN
T FORM
FACTOR

7 REASONS EXISTING SIEM

IS NOT ENOUGH

1.
FIXED
DEPLOYMEN
T FORM
FACTOR

Current generation SIEMs offer fixed

forms; You get an appliance or
software. However, for most
enterprise environments, one size
does not fit all. You need the flexibility
to mix and match form factors based
on your organizations requirements
and enterprise logistics. You should be
able to run software on an existing
server or deploy an appliance based
on your specific problem. In todays
security- conscious world, you
shouldnt have to be locked into onpremise or cloud if policies and
situations dictate the need for
adaptability.

7 REASONS EXISTING SIEM

IS NOT ENOUGH

1.
HOW CLOUDACCESS IS DIFFERENT

FIXED
DEPLOYMEN
T FORM
FACTOR

Deployment models shouldn't be a

distraction. We provide either an on
premise or cloud-based solution.
CloudAccess recognizes the continued
de-perimeterization of corporate
networks and the emergence of varied
communication channels that require
more than traditional blocking. Our
SIEM solution provides the flexibility to
deploy in any configuration and
unlocks SIEMs true potential with ondemand scalability.

7 REASONS EXISTING SIEM

IS NOT ENOUGH

2.
TOO MANY
FALSE
POSITIVES

7 REASONS EXISTING SIEM

IS NOT ENOUGH

2.
TOO MANY
FALSE
POSITIVES

SIEM systems are notorious for issuing

false alarms. The potential torrent of
alerts forces security teams to deal with
an overwhelming amount of
unnecessary information. This often
leads to The Boy Who Cried Wolf
syndrome whereby incidents needing
investigation are ignored as insignificant
events. Obviously, current correlation
and anomaly detection algorithms are
not efficient enough. Whether signaturebased or anomaly-based, existing SIEMs
are not designed to correlate behavior
patterns and the fine tuning of an IDS is
resource draining.

7 REASONS EXISTING SIEM

IS NOT ENOUGH

2.
HOW CLOUDACCESS IS DIFFERENT

TOO MANY
FALSE
POSITIVES

SIEMs full potential can be unlocked

when it incorporates data beyond
NetSec events...when it
can correlate identities, access rights,
user and application activities, audit
logs, geo-location,
and NetSec events to prevent and
control suspect behavior based on
discovered patterns. This proactive
focus is automated and does not
require hours of fine tuning or script
writing. It leverages the function of
each data source to triage an event in
order to determine its threat level and
create true actionable events.

7 REASONS EXISTING SIEM

IS NOT ENOUGH

3.
BLIND TO
NETWORK
FLOWS

7 REASONS EXISTING SIEM

IS NOT ENOUGH

3.
BLIND TO
NETWORK
FLOWS

The network never lies. Attackers

always leave a network trail, and flow
data (if collected) can provide you with
another clue that an attack is
happening. By analyzing flow data you
can develop a baseline for network
traffic with which you can compare
suspect behavior. Unfortunately, most
of todays SIEMs dont pay attention to
network flows.

7 REASONS EXISTING SIEM

IS NOT ENOUGH

3.
HOW CLOUDACCESS IS DIFFERENT

BLIND TO
NETWORK
FLOWS

Our SIEM solution focuses more on

detection and prevention by correlating
with other security tools and seeing
their part in the entire network flow
schema. No existing SIEM solution
(except CloudSIEM) analyzes network
flow out of the box to better recognize
patterns of behavior.

7 REASONS EXISTING SIEM

IS NOT ENOUGH

4.
DIFFICULT
TO SCALE

7 REASONS EXISTING SIEM

IS NOT ENOUGH

4.
DIFFICULT
TO SCALE

Many existing SIEM products are built

on relational databases, which
significantly limits their scalability in an
enterprise environment. Based on an
enterprises exponential need to
capture and analyze events, it wont
work without expensive equipment for a
distributed architecture. Additionally,
this also needs complicated rule sets
which require a dedicated database
administrator to manage them.

7 REASONS EXISTING SIEM

IS NOT ENOUGH

4.
HOW CLOUDACCESS IS DIFFERENT

DIFFICULT
TO SCALE

Part of CloudSIEMs differentiation is

can be a cloud-based service. It can
quickly and effectively right size to any
organizations need without investing in
any more architecture or expensive
hardware like servers. Using natural
economies of scale, these costs are
already absorbed and changes are more
fluid and immediate. And, as a service,
we provide the additional live analysts
to analyze, respond, alert, and
administrate 24/7/365 .

7 REASONS EXISTING SIEM

IS NOT ENOUGH

5.
LACK OF
BIG DATA
ANALYTICS

7 REASONS EXISTING SIEM

IS NOT ENOUGH

5.
LACK OF
BIG DATA
ANALYTICS

The reality is that traditional SIEM tools

are just not able to capture
unstructured data from across an
organization that is relevant to
enterprise security. The collection of
logs is what current SIEM deployments
do best. Therefore, since output is logbased, no matter how often they are
reviewed, these events have already
occurred.Without the input of multiple
parallel silos (i.e. Active Directory,
application activity, device location,
etc, ), SIEM doesnt provide Big Data
context.

7 REASONS EXISTING SIEM

IS NOT ENOUGH

5.
HOW CLOUDACCESS IS DIFFERENT

LACK OF
BIG DATA
ANALYTICS

The key to CloudSIEM is the provision of

wider context through integration with
other security silos. It can correlate
multiple levels of intelligence looking
for behavioral anomalies that might
otherwise get overlooked. Because
CloudSIEM (via CloudAccess REACT)
adapts to Big Data, its analytics put
businesses in a better position to
predict attacks in advance by
comparing network states before and
after attacks. Its not that it correlates
all the data, but offers a clearer picture
of how it all fits together.

7 REASONS EXISTING SIEM

IS NOT ENOUGH

6.
DOESNT
INTEGRATE
WITH OTHER
TOOLS

7 REASONS EXISTING SIEM

IS NOT ENOUGH

6.
DOESNT
INTEGRATE
WITH OTHER
TOOLS

Traditional network perimeters no

longer exist. The nature of attacks
arent standard and grow more
sophisticated every day. Todays SIEM is
simply not equipped to keep up unless
it communicates with other security
assets. However, to incorporate and
integrate all the various point solution
tools, comprehensive policies, cover all
the devices, endpoints and applications,
network activity and devise all the
configurations, collaborations and
compliance requirements might take
years and millions of dollars.

7 REASONS EXISTING SIEM

IS NOT ENOUGH

6.
HOW CLOUDACCESS IS DIFFERENT

DOESNT
INTEGRATE
WITH OTHER
TOOLS

CloudSIEM is an integrated solution

(REACT) that collects, correlates, and
analyzes log data plus configuration,
system, asset, and flow data. It serves
as the processing hub for a fully
functional unified security program.
Together with REACT, it can integrate
with any security asset such as single
sign on, IDM, IDS, log management, etc.
But, more than sounding alerts, this
seamless integration enables efficient
root-cause analysis. Because everything
is interlinked, you can get to the bottom
of an issue in minutes or seconds.

7 REASONS EXISTING SIEM

IS NOT ENOUGH

7.
TIME TO
VALUE

7 REASONS EXISTING SIEM

IS NOT ENOUGH

7.
TIME TO
VALUE

The higher the cost of a product, the

more time it takes to realize a return
on investment. A 7 or 8-figure
investment requires a huge value for
payback. It is also a challenge to
realize a return when the investment
itself continues to grow. In the end,
value is a risk versus reward sum.
Whether dealing with the hard and soft
costs of compliance, a breach,
reputation, current SIEM deployments
time to value are especially long; and
often times, impossible to recover.

7 REASONS EXISTING SIEM

IS NOT ENOUGH

7.
HOW CLOUDACCESS IS DIFFERENT

TIME TO
VALUE

If security is weighted by a risk versus

reward investment, CloudSIEM offers
the most comprehensive, feature-rich,
and proven-effective option for any
company looking to increase
organizational control, identify and
close vulnerability gaps, maintain
compliance, and protect its most
valuable assets. SIEM-as-a-Service is
no longer an alternative, but a means to
create a proactive advantage without
sacrificing resources.

7 REASONS EXISTING SIEM

IS NOT ENOUGH

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