Re: SIM solution - Objectives ?

"Tom Le" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.sysutils.loganalysis
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> Does it make sense to receive High alerts and take a 15 minute
> response when a login failure happens on a few servers.?

The big challenge here isn't an SLA, which most MSSP's will provide.  The
big question is what is a high severity alert?  If you rely on IDS/IPS
securities of "high" or "critical" you will generate a ton of false
positives.  Does the MSSP have their own severity ranking mechanism?  What
factors do they consider... such as correlation analysis, anomaly detection,
vulnerability scan data, host & fw messages in addition to IDS/IPS, asset
value, 0-day information, your corporate security policies and other
customizations.

Finally, is there a human security analyst that needs to review the above
data as part of the SLA and do they have subjective ability to determine
what event(s) comprise a high severity alert?  You will have a harder time
getting the MSSP to define what is "high severity" than agreeing to a 15-min
SLA.

Tom Le

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