Security Log Management

Conduct security log management with greater ease and efficiency—anytime, anywhere.

Manage thousands of security audit logs from one location

Manage thousands of security audit logs from one location

SolarWinds® Security Event Manager (SEM) is designed to help you conduct security log monitoring efficiently and effectively by aggregating network logs and events, including those from firewalls, IDS/IPS devices and applications, switches, routers, servers, operating system logs, and more.

By collecting and storing this data in a single location, the platform can correlate events and logs in real time to help you identify insider threats, zero-day malware, and other advanced botnet attacks. Security Event Manager’s intuitive, web-based console provides you with a unified view to give you both a high-level view of your IT infrastructure and details about specific events and user activity.

Respond to threats in real time with security log management

Respond to threats in real time with security log management

Security Event Manager’s log monitoring software is built to provide automated threat detection capabilities, so you can instantly respond to industry-recognized indications of an attacker infiltrating your network. The platform’s built-in incident response mechanisms are designed to log users off, kill applications, block IP addresses, and more, which can help your IT infrastructure effectively take measures against experiencing a full-blown security breach. Security Event Manager will even notify you when any of your preconfigured alert thresholds have been crossed, so you can jump into action quickly.

Improve compliance through security event log management

Improve compliance through security event log management

Companies of all sizes may need to comply with various regulations, including HIPAA, PCI DSS, SOX, FISMA, NERC CIP, FERPA, GLBA, GPG13, and DISA STIG—which aim to keep patient, consumer, and/or employee data safe and secure.

Security Event Manager includes hundreds of built-in reports to streamline compliance efforts by helping demonstrate security log management efforts. These visual, graph-filled reports can enhance your high-level analysis and be filtered as needed for internal and external standards alike. The reports can even be scheduled to run as frequently as needed—whether on a daily, weekly, or monthly basis—helping you stay on top of compliance reporting.

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  • What is security log management?
  • How does security log management work?
  • Why is security log management important?
  • What does security log management software do?
  • How does security log management work in Security Event Manager?
  • Related Features and Tools
  • What is security log management?

    Security log management, or security event log management, is an integral component of security information and event management (SIEM). Logs contain text-based data for a range of events and activities that have occurred within your IT infrastructure, as well as information about the users behind these events and activities. Analyzing and pulling insights from security logs can be an essential part of effective risk management and help you demonstrate regulatory compliance.

  • How does security log management work?

    Security log management includes monitoring and analyzing logs within your software and hardware, including those from routers, switches, servers, and applications. This data can help tell a story about the functioning and security of your infrastructure and reveal patterns to help you identify potential threats.

    Users can conduct security log management by reviewing individual logs stored in both local and remote servers. However, manually monitoring all the security logs within an infrastructure can be time-consuming. Security log management software is designed to collect and consolidate event log data automatically, so you don’t have to sort through fragmented event logs to identify security threats and can more easily maintain the health of your IT infrastructure.

  • Why is security log management important?

    Security log management should be an integral part of any IT department’s security strategy. By engaging in effective security log management, users can better safeguard their environments from advanced persistent threats (APTs), zero-day malware attacks, and more.

    Security log management is also important for compliance—whether it’s HIPAA, SOX, NERC CIP, PCI DSS, or another standard. With insights from security logs, it can be easier to dig in to the data to uncover potential policy violations and more easily demonstrate regulatory compliance.

  • What does security log management software do?

    Log monitoring software is designed to streamline and simplify the process of security log management by collecting and consolidating event log data from routers, applications, and servers within an IT environment. A robust security log management tool is built to automatically aggregate event log data from thousands of devices, routers, and applications within your IT infrastructure into a single view. This tool can also help you quickly identify attack patterns and develop an in-depth understanding to support critical forensic analysis.

    Keeping all your security log data in a single, easy-to-access location can also support your ability to more easily demonstrate compliance. You can use network log monitoring software to generate purpose-built compliance reports that can be exported in a variety of formats for use with compliance auditing to help paint a comprehensive portrait of your IT infrastructure, including the steps you’re taking to protect sensitive data.

    With a robust security log management solution, you can also observe potentially malicious security logs of threats attempting to infiltrate your network alongside user activity logs all in one dashboard. This can allow you to more easily correlate the steps users took leading up to and following an incident to identify trends. Security log management software helps provide the views and insights that can allow you to act before security breaches occur by helping you more easily identify both internal and external threats.

  • How does security log management work in Security Event Manager?

    Security log management in SolarWinds Security Event Manager begins with the collection and consolidation of security event log data within your IT infrastructure. Security Event Manager is designed to aggregate this data into a web-based console, so you can easily view and filter security audit logs, minimizing lower priority file changes and focusing on the log data that matters most. SEM can provide in-depth insight into your IT environment without requiring you to spend hours sifting through individual logs by helping you easily pinpoint suspicious object changes and other threat indicators quickly.

    All this security log data is stored at a high compression rate within Security Event Manager, which can help support compliance reporting and reduces external storage requirements. In addition to its advanced log filtering features, SolarWinds SEM also includes a drag-and-drop interface to track events in real time.

    Through Security Event Manager’s regularly updated threat intelligence feed, log events are evaluated for potential threats and to identify known bad IPs. If the feed tags an event as suspicious, users are notified immediately. You can even define your own preconfigured alert thresholds, so you receive notifications as soon as these thresholds have been crossed. Combined with the software’s built-in compliance reporting templates, these alerting capabilities can help give you the ability to perform security event log management more efficiently and effectively.

  • Related Features and Tools

What is security log management?

Security log management, or security event log management, is an integral component of security information and event management (SIEM). Logs contain text-based data for a range of events and activities that have occurred within your IT infrastructure, as well as information about the users behind these events and activities. Analyzing and pulling insights from security logs can be an essential part of effective risk management and help you demonstrate regulatory compliance.

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How does security log management work?

Security log management includes monitoring and analyzing logs within your software and hardware, including those from routers, switches, servers, and applications. This data can help tell a story about the functioning and security of your infrastructure and reveal patterns to help you identify potential threats.

Users can conduct security log management by reviewing individual logs stored in both local and remote servers. However, manually monitoring all the security logs within an infrastructure can be time-consuming. Security log management software is designed to collect and consolidate event log data automatically, so you don’t have to sort through fragmented event logs to identify security threats and can more easily maintain the health of your IT infrastructure.

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Why is security log management important?

Security log management should be an integral part of any IT department’s security strategy. By engaging in effective security log management, users can better safeguard their environments from advanced persistent threats (APTs), zero-day malware attacks, and more.

Security log management is also important for compliance—whether it’s HIPAA, SOX, NERC CIP, PCI DSS, or another standard. With insights from security logs, it can be easier to dig in to the data to uncover potential policy violations and more easily demonstrate regulatory compliance.

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What does security log management software do?

Log monitoring software is designed to streamline and simplify the process of security log management by collecting and consolidating event log data from routers, applications, and servers within an IT environment. A robust security log management tool is built to automatically aggregate event log data from thousands of devices, routers, and applications within your IT infrastructure into a single view. This tool can also help you quickly identify attack patterns and develop an in-depth understanding to support critical forensic analysis.

Keeping all your security log data in a single, easy-to-access location can also support your ability to more easily demonstrate compliance. You can use network log monitoring software to generate purpose-built compliance reports that can be exported in a variety of formats for use with compliance auditing to help paint a comprehensive portrait of your IT infrastructure, including the steps you’re taking to protect sensitive data.

With a robust security log management solution, you can also observe potentially malicious security logs of threats attempting to infiltrate your network alongside user activity logs all in one dashboard. This can allow you to more easily correlate the steps users took leading up to and following an incident to identify trends. Security log management software helps provide the views and insights that can allow you to act before security breaches occur by helping you more easily identify both internal and external threats.

Close
How does security log management work in Security Event Manager?

Security log management in SolarWinds Security Event Manager begins with the collection and consolidation of security event log data within your IT infrastructure. Security Event Manager is designed to aggregate this data into a web-based console, so you can easily view and filter security audit logs, minimizing lower priority file changes and focusing on the log data that matters most. SEM can provide in-depth insight into your IT environment without requiring you to spend hours sifting through individual logs by helping you easily pinpoint suspicious object changes and other threat indicators quickly.

All this security log data is stored at a high compression rate within Security Event Manager, which can help support compliance reporting and reduces external storage requirements. In addition to its advanced log filtering features, SolarWinds SEM also includes a drag-and-drop interface to track events in real time.

Through Security Event Manager’s regularly updated threat intelligence feed, log events are evaluated for potential threats and to identify known bad IPs. If the feed tags an event as suspicious, users are notified immediately. You can even define your own preconfigured alert thresholds, so you receive notifications as soon as these thresholds have been crossed. Combined with the software’s built-in compliance reporting templates, these alerting capabilities can help give you the ability to perform security event log management more efficiently and effectively.

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Use security log management software to boost your security strategy

Security Event Manager

  • Track event log data in real time to never miss a potential security issue.

  • Leverage instant alerts to stop hackers in their tracks.

  • Remain on track with auditors through in-depth compliance reporting.

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