Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) is an approach aimed at consolidating logs from different sources and devices to a central processing unit that can apply intelligence and analytics to make sense of the different data points. This is done to alert the security team in real-time about security events/incidents and to assist in triaging. It enables the security team to make sense of what is happening in the environment and provide actionable insights for conducting an incident response.

SIEM is a product that collates and investigates logs from a wide range of assets over your whole IT foundation. SIEM gathers security information from system gadgets, servers, and space controllers, and that's only the tip of the iceberg. It stores, standardizes, totals, and performs an examination of that information to find patterns, distinguish threats, and empower associations to research any alarms.

A SIEM system has the following...