Redefining cyberdefense with dual-layered precision and automation
By Subhalakshmi Ganapathy, Product Evangelist, IT Security, ManageEngine.
In the ever-evolving realm of cybersecurity, security operations teams face an unprecedented challenge: managing a daily surge of alerts. According to a recent report, SOC teams receive an average of 4,484 alerts daily and spend nearly three hours a day manually prioritizing alerts. The report also states that “security analysts are unable to deal with 67% of the daily alerts received, with 83% reporting that alerts are false positives and not worth their time.”
With the rapid surge in cloud adoption, there has been a significant increase in data managed by security solutions. Unfortunately, the trajectory suggests that this situation is unlikely to improve. As data inflows continue to grow, the influx of alerts is only set to increase. This poses a critical challenge for today’s SOCs and, coupled with the prevalent cybersecurity skill gap, necessitates a prompt and focused response.
The struggle of legacy SIEM solution in the cloud era
With nearly two decades of service, legacy SIEM solutions grapple with the complexities of processing the vast amounts of data resulting from widespread cloud adoption. The exponential increase in data requires contextual analysis and filtering, which legacy SIEM solutions lack. Also, adversaries are advancing their tactics, delving into intricate methods to heighten the success rate of their attacks. This dichotomy underscores the necessity for a fundamental shift in the approach to threat detection and response.
Navigating the evolutionary crossroads
Amidst higher cloud adoption and the accompanying data surge, the traditional speed of threat detection and response from legacy SIEM solutions proves inadequate. It’s a pivotal moment for SIEM solutions to evolve and address the contemporary triad of challenges: people (the cybersecurity skill gap), processes (false positives leading to dead-end investigations), and technology (slow processing platforms struggling with swift threat detection).
Legacy SIEM solutions are now exploring innovation in deployment, adopting cloud-based or hybrid models, and incorporating AI into their working systems to defend against cyberattacks. AI has been applied in threat detection mechanisms and automation, however, the time has come for solutions to integrate AI into the core systems of SIEM to address present challenges.
ManageEngine Vigil IQ: A dual-layered innovation
In response to this imperative need for innovation, ManageEngine has elevated Log360’s threat detection, investigation, and response (TDIR) engine: Vigil IQ. What sets this enhancement apart is its industry-first, dual-layered system, meticulously designed to detect threats accurately and precisely, thereby transforming the landscape of threat management.
Advantages of the dual-layered approach
Higher abstraction for precision and accuracy
In a landscape overwhelmed by data and false positives, security operations (SecOps) teams need heightened precision and accuracy in threat detection. Vigil IQ’s dual-layered approach employs ML capabilities at both levels, ensuring comprehensive threat coverage and reliable detection. Accuracy ensures the identification of a broad spectrum of threat strains, and precision enhances the system’s reliability to pinpoint actual threats.
Automation: Bridging the cybersecurity skill gap
Addressing the cybersecurity skill gap is critical in the current market scenario. Vigil IQ’s dual-layered system not only enhances the precision of detection but also introduces automation to the alert triaging process. The second layer precisely identifies high-impact threats for immediate attention, streamlining alert triaging for security analysts. This strategic fusion empowers SecOps professionals to strike a balance, dedicating more time to actual threat detection and response.
Dynamic learning to adapt to a changing environment
Vigil IQ’s dual-layered threat detection system incorporates built-in dynamic learning capabilities that continuously fine-tune the precision of the system. This dynamic learning allows the real-time alerting console to adapt to network changes, reducing false positives and enabling analysts to focus solely on real threats.
In a cybersecurity landscape defined by the expansive reach of the cloud and an escalating volume of alerts, Vigil IQ, the TDIR engine of Log360, ManageEngine’s SIEM solution, emerges as a beacon of innovation. ManageEngine’s industry-first, dual-layered system revolutionizes threat detection, offering higher abstraction, precision, and, crucially, automation. As legacy SIEM solutions grapple with adaptation, Vigil IQ stands at the forefront of ushering in a new era, one where accuracy and efficiency redefine the boundaries of cybersecurity defense.
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