Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) – A Detailed Explanation

SIEM software products and services combine security information management (SIM) and security event management (SEM). They provide real-time analysis of security alerts generated by network hardware and applications.

Vendors sell SIEM as software, as appliances or as managed services; these products are also used to log security data and generate reports for compliance purposes.

Although the industry has settled on the term ‘SIEM’ as the catch-all term for

this type of security software, it evolved from several different (but complementary)

technologies that came before it.

 

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 Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) – A Detailed Explanation