SIEM Threat Intelligence

Your cyber security controls can seem like a patchwork of solutions. While they all work to keep your data safe, they may not communicate with one another, which means your security team is manually sifting through the alerts from each tool. SIEM threat intelligence solutions consolidate that information, so that your security team is able to focus on the most pressing threats.

How Can Flare Help Monitor SIEM Threat Intelligence?

Why use Flare to manage SIEM threat intelligence?

Threat intelligence comes from many different sources and tools and it can be overwhelming to monitor and manage them all. In many cases, the tools are siloed, so it’s your security team’s job to monitor them all, and decide which threat intelligence is most useful. Manually sifting and prioritizing that amount of intelligence is challenging. Even with automated alerts, sorting through the noise to find relevant information can be time-consuming.

Flare consolidates threat intelligence in one platform, providing your team with contextualized insights, delivering only the notifications that are relevant to your organization in an evolving threat landscape.

How does Flare manage SIEM threat intelligence?

Flare automates the process of scanning for SIEM threat intelligence. Flare’s platform monitors the clear & dark web — as well as paste sites, public GitHub repositories, and more. The platform sends your team alerts when it detects your organization, employees’ names, domains, IP, or any other key information so your team can find leaked or stolen data and take action quickly.

Because Flare only sends alerts when they’re relevant, your team can then analyze and prioritize the information.

What are the key benefits of using Flare alongside your SIEM threat intelligence management solution?

Alerts that cut through the noise: Instead of inundating your organization with alerts, Flare sends only the notifications that matter most, contextualizes and prioritizes so your team can take immediate action.
Automated continuous monitoring: Using an automated solution gives you 24/7 coverage, so you will know as soon as your information appears where it should not be.
Visibility into the deep and dark web: Flare’s monitoring solution scans the clear & dark web, as well as prominent threat actor communities, to find leaks before an attack happens.
A proactive security stance: By actively seeking out potential threats, you can catch breaches early and take steps to protect your data, systems, and networks.

Why do teams use Flare to manage SIEM threat intelligence?

Your organization’s attack surface is always expanding, which makes it difficult for your security team to monitor every weak spot in your infrastructure. Many organizations use a variety of tools to monitor several channels, but still encounter coverage issues. Flare lets you monitor your organization’s attack surface to identify new attack vectors, while monitoring SIEM threat intelligence for hacker chatter or exposed assets.

An Overview of SIEM Threat Intelligence

What is SIEM threat intelligence?

Pronounced “sim,” SIEM stands for Security Information and Event Management. SIEM is a cybersecurity solution that combines both security information management and security event management. SIEM solutions pull threat intelligence from several sources, identify patterns in the data that indicate a threat, and generate an alert. A SIEM solution helps organizations see and mitigate potential threats and vulnerabilities before an incident can occur.

What is the history of SIEM threat intelligence?

The term “SIEM” was first used in a 2005 report by Gartner. The technology was developed to consolidate the threat intelligence generated by tools like firewalls and antivirus software, but evolved into a more dynamic way to manage risk. Originally, SIEM adoption was driven by Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS) compliance, but as cyber threats became more complicated, SIEM tools were adopted more widely.

How does SIEM threat intelligence work?

A SIEM platform collects, normalizes, analyzes, and correlates log data from various sources within an organization’s IT infrastructure to detect and respond to security incidents in real-time. SIEM solutions gather information from sources such as:

Servers
Network devices
Firewalls
Intrusion detection systems (IDS)
Databases
Applications

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What are the four types of threat intelligence?

Threat intelligence typically falls into four categories:

Strategic: Summarizes potential threats, trends, and their business impact.
Tactical: Information about the tactics, techniques and procedures (TTPs) being used by threat actors.
Technical: Alerts an organization when an attack is underway and helps block the attack.
Operational: Data that’s used to anticipate future attacks.

Why is SIEM threat intelligence an important part of a cybersecurity strategy?

How can SIEM threat intelligence stop breaches?

Forewarned is forearmed. SIEM threat intelligence is a dynamic, proactive approach to security. Strong threat data gives your team a window into potential threats before an attack even takes place. SIEM can help your organization strengthen its cyber defenses, hunt for threats, remediate vulnerabilities, improve compliance, and streamline your cybersecurity processes.

What is the impact of a cyber attack on your organization?

When your organization is attacked, you can experience serious consequences, from loss of customer trust to legal issues. The financial cost is steep as well: the average cost of a data breach is $4.45 million, although many industries experience higher costs. These costs include the cost of finding and remediating the breach, interruptions of operations, legal fees and other fines.

What threats can SIEM threat intelligence detect?

SIEM systems can detect several types of threats, including the following:

Malware and ransomware
Phishing attacks
Insider threats
Brute force attacks
Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs)
Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks
Exploitation of vulnerabilities
Network threats