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Whether you're centralizing your security data for the first time or have dealt with multiple SIEM deployments, I am sure you know it's a tricky, even scary, project. Gartner notes, "We frequently speak to clients who are purchasing their second or third SIEM solution after finding that their incumbent solution does not meet their expectations."
It's not easy. Today's security teams are already strained by mountains of false-positive alerts, lengthy incident investigations, and jumping between siloed solutions to answer simple questions. At Rapid7, we understand that you don't just want comprehensive data collection – you want answers. Whether your goal is to reliably detect attacks, meet compliance, or report key metrics across the company, we can help.
Gartner recently released a report on why SIEM deployments fail. Top reasons include monitoring noise, and failing to add the correct data sources. You can find the report below, as well as why our incident detection and response solution, InsightIDR, helps avoid these pitfalls – by design. Enjoy the report, companion guide, and our interactive product tour.
Lee Weiner
Chief Product Officer, Rapid7
Overcoming Common Causes for SIEM Solution Deployment Failures
- Mitchell Schneider | Toby Bussa | Kelly Kavanagh
- 30 May 2017
Implementing SIEM solutions continues to be fraught with difficulties, with failed and stalled deployments common as well as solutions not meeting goals a year or more afterward. Security and risk management leaders can avoid the six most common SIEM failures by following these best practices.
Key Challenges
- Avoiding stalled or failed SIEM solution projects requires careful planning where there is a clear understanding of the scope, objectives and associated use cases. Many security organizations underestimate the amount of planning required before purchasing, implementing and operating a SIEM solution, and hit a hard stop once this becomes clear.
- Many security organizations do not realize that enabling security logs can materially increase resource utilization (CPU and I/O) on the monitored server.
- The necessary resources for effective implementation and operations are routinely underestimated, and SIEM solutions are often purchased without assessing the feasibility of running them in-house.
Rapid7 InsightIDR
InsightIDR relentlessly hunts threats across your environment. By unifying SIEM, User Behavior Analytics, and Endpoint Detection with your existing network and security stack, you reliably detect intruders and can prioritize where to search.
Explore InsightIDR Product Use Cases
When planning out a SIEM project, Gartner recommends "developing an initial 6-12 month roadmap, with a phased implementation of five to seven use cases." In our interactive product tour, you can point and click to explore the top scenarios used by customers today. Best of all? You won't need months – many customers report identifying risk and misconfigurations within weeks of deployment.
Companion Guide to "Overcoming Common SIEM Deployment Failures"
In the accompanying Gartner report, their security analyst team identifies six common reasons why the SIEM project starts to get out of hand. We've written a short guide that shares our approach to tackling these common points of failure.
