Monthly Blog Round-Up – December 2017
Here is my next monthly "Security Warrior" blog round-up of top 5 popular posts based on last month’s visitor data (excluding other monthly or annual round-ups): “ Why No Open Source SIEM, EVER? ” contains some of my SIEM thinking from 2009 (oh, wow, ancient history!). Is it relevant now? You be the judge. Succeeding with SIEM requires a lot of work, whether you paid for the software, or not. BTW, this post has an amazing “staying power” that is hard to explain – I suspect it has to do with people wanting “free stuff” and googling for “open source SIEM ” … “New SIEM Whitepaper on Use Cases In-Depth OUT!” (dated 2010) presents a whitepaper on select SIEM use cases described in depth with rules and reports [using now-defunct SIEM product]; also see this SIEM use case in depth and this for a more current list of popular SIEM use cases. Finally, see our 2016 research on developing security monitoring use cases here – and we are updating it now. Again, ...