The SIEM market has evolved and today most solutions call themselves “Next Generation SIEM.” Effective NG SIEM should provide better protection and equally important, if not more, a much more effective, next gen user experience. What you should look for when evaluating a next generation SIEM? The state of cybersecurity has evolved one threat at a time, with organizations constantly adding new technologies to combat new threats. The result? Organizations are left with complex and costly infrastructures made up of many products that are out of sync with one another, and thus simply cannot keep pace with the velocity of today’s dizzying threat landscape. Traditional security information and event management (SIEM) solutions tried to make sense of the mess but fell short. Then came “Next Generation SIEM” or NG-SIEM. No vendor today will admit that they sell legacy SIEM, but there is no ISO style organization doling out official NG SIEM stamps of approval. So how is a security professio...
