Setting up your SIEM for success - Pitfalls to preclude and tips to take - Geoff Cairns, Neil Desai - ESW #400
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Release Date: 03/31/2025
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info_outlineA successful SIEM deployment depends on a lot more than implementing the SIEM correctly. So many other things in your environment have an impact on your chances of a successful SIEM.
- Are the right logs enabled?
- Is your EDR working correctly?
- Would you notice a sudden increase or decrease in events from critical sources?
- What can practitioners do to ensure the success of their SIEM deployment?
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In this interview, we feature some research from Geoff Cairns, an analyst at Forrester Research. This is a preview to the talk he'll be giving at Identiverse 2025 in a few months.
We won't have time to cover all the trends, but there are several here that I'm excited to discuss!
- Deepfake Detection Difficult
- Zero Trust Agentic AI
- Phishing resistant MFA adoption
- Identity Verification
- Machine Identity
- Decentralized Identity
- Post Quantum
- Shared Signals
Segment Resources:
- The Top Trends Shaping Identity And Access Management In 2025 - (Forrester subscription required)
In this week's enterprise security news,
- Big funding for Island
- Is DLP finally getting disrupted? By something that works?
- We learn all about Model Context Protocol servers
- Integrating SSO and SSH!
- Do we have too many cybersecurity regulations?
- Toxic cybersecurity workplaces
- Napster makes a comeback
- this week, we’ve got 50% less AI and 50% more co-hosts
All that and more, on this episode of Enterprise Security Weekly.
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Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/esw-400