July 30, 2010

Security Information Management (SIM) Benefits

Explore the benefits users and organizations realize through the adoption and implementation of Security Information Management (SIM, including SEM and SIEM). Includes financial impact, organizational benefits, IT security results and much more.

Career Education Corp. Gets Smart on IT Security
"It's hard to quantify in hard figures, but if we had not been able to use this technology [SIM] we would have had to invest in a systems administrator to do this work; and from a security standpoint, we wouldn't have such visibility into our entire environment." and "Among the many benefits of CEC's estimated $ 400,000 [SIM] investment are SOX compliance and comprehensive reporting, combined external and internal threat management, improved security-threat response time, and increased ROI on IT resources."
Michael Gabriel, Career Education Corporation

Centralizing and Analyzing Security Events: Deploying Security Information Management Systems
"In summary, SIM provides centralized network monitoring, automatically pulls logs from multiple devices, eliminates the need for manually intensive analysis, eliminates the need to respond to threats manually, and provides reporting capabilities required for daily review by State & University audits and security guidelines."
Lynn Ray, Towson University

On Incident Handling and Response: A State-of-the-art Approach
"The most important benefit of a Security Information Management System deployment within an organization is the forensic information they can provide, by allowing specific queries regarding the source and destination as well as the time and type of an incident."
Sarandis Mitropoulos, Dimitrios Patsos and Christos Douligeris, Elsevier

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