Cybersecurity can pose a daunting business challenge for small and midsize enterprises (SMEs). At its most basic level, information security shares the same composition of other critical business processes: People: Security analysts and incident responders who perform threat prevention, detection and response functions Process: The operational workflows involved in threat prevention, detection and response Technology: The security tools needed for log aggregation, correlation and analysis These people, processes and technologies represent the core components of the security operations…

IT networks churn out an extraordinary volume of activity, and this poses a cybersecurity challenge. Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) may experience millions if not billions of network events on any given day. These originate from applications, endpoints, user actions, servers and a multitude of other IT sources. The odds of identifying a legitimate cyberthreat are not in your favor. The purpose of Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) solutions is to aggregate networks events…