Get it together

Your systems kick out a vast number of logs, but it’s getting harder to make sense of them. Jim Carr looks at the new face of aggregation: SIM

Whether you have a SOX problem or a HIPAA ailment, it is becoming more tempting to enlist a SIM. But beware what you're buying into. Vendors are heavily hyping their security incident management (SIM) wares as the cure-all for meeting regulatory compliance standards such as the Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) and Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Acts (HIPAA). If anything, they're half right.

Yes, the increasingly large number of SIM solutions (or security information and/or event management, so the abbreviation could be SIEM or SEM) can help beleaguered enterprises comply with these and other regulatory acts.

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