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At the same time, the rate of cyber crimes is increasing. Regulations surrounding information security are becoming more strict and more strongly enforced. The costs associated with data loss — especially when personal identification information (PII) or credit card data is involved — can be monumental. Fines from compliance audit failures add even more pressure.
To fully protect your network and satisfy the demands of regulatory compliance mandates such as HIPAA, PCI DSS, and SOX, several separate technology solutions are required:
The costs of procuring, installing, and maintaining four discrete technology solutions can quickly add up. The operational overhead of maintaining these separate systems also leaves less time for actual information security operations, reducing the effectiveness of security analysts and incident response teams. Luckily, it is possible to increase security in all areas cost effectively.
"Invest in securing infrastructure and data adequately, because this will help to drive desired compliance results."
Gartner, Nov 2008, "Best Practices for Midsize Businesses Seeking Cost-Effective Compliance," Adam Hils & John Bace
By integrating protective devices such as IPS, log storage & analysis devices such as SIEM and Log Management appliances, and data monitoring devices consolidates overlapping technology needs and reduces overall costs — both in terms of initial equipment investments and ongoing operational costs. The solution is simple: Because the SIEM is already designed to manage information, simply extend its operation to include the management of other key systems that either generate that information (database monitors, IPS), or store it (log management).
Four separate solutions become one, where information regarding logs, data access, and intrusion are centralized into a common analysis & reporting interface. For even more efficiency, the device & policy management of each system is also centralized, providing a true "single pane of glass" management system where one application provides access to all areas of information security.
"Ongoing convergence in technologies, market models and organizational processes offers enterprises a significant opportunity to reduce security costs, while improving security levels."
Gartner, March 2008, "Cost Cutting While Improving Security," Neil MacDonald & John Pescatore & Kelly M. Kavanagh
The actual costs of a data breach vary, and should be evaluated by any organization looking to quantify a return on investment for data security investments. Things to consider include:
For more information on the costs of non-compliance, please see our whitepaper, The Costs of Non-Compliance.
For more information on meeting compliance regulations, please see our whitepaper, Meeting Compliance
Strong information security practices can prevent significant costs associated with data loss, exposure, and operational expenses (see Security ROI Analysis). However, "best practices" for data and database security, intrusion prevention, network anomaly detection, and security information and event management (SIEM) are difficult to achieve individually—when combined into a single system for efficiency and savings, the challenge increases. This is because some systems require the creation of new information, while others strive to simplify already overwhelming quantities of information.
The requirement to both collect more information—in some cases creating new sources of information—and manage it all together can place extreme performance demands on your SIEM. The collection of the network, event, and log information can be overwhelming; The storage and analysis of that same information can bring an ordinary SIEM to its knees.
In order to collect the necessary events, logs, network flows, and database sessions to provide a truly integrated system, SIEM must be able to:
These requirements are inclusive: collecting information at sufficient rates without also being able to quickly analyze the total information load, for example, might satisfy certain requirements (incident detection), but not others (incident response). Collecting host logs for encrypted storage without making certain parts of those logs available for analysis solves compliance requirements for log handling, but precludes the analysis of logs for other security purposes—and even other compliance purposes. For example, without the ability to correlate database activity logs to other application logs, certain paths to protected data, such as applications using pooled accounts, become impossible to track.
So how can NitroView ESM do all of this and provide additional features such as network discovery, device management, and data & network policy management? The answer is NitroView's patented data management technology, which provides raw performance that is hundreds to thousands of times faster than normal SIEMs. This allows NitroView ESM to collect more information, from more sources, storing all of that information together for common analysis, correlation, and reporting.
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The result is better overall visibility into what's really happening within your infrastructure: knowing where regulated data is stored, knowing whose accessing that data, knowing what applications are being used inappropriately or are simply poorly designed, and how your network is being used to access those applications and services. In terms of compliance, having complete visibility to your protected data, and knowing who accessed it and how is crucial. In terms of security, having broad visibility makes both internal and external threats easier to detect, locate, and remediate.
The need to improve security remains, despite hard economic times. Though budgets are tight, the high costs of data loss—and the regulatory requirements surrounding information security—require the implementation of additional security measures.
The answer is efficiency through convergence— providing fewer systems to maintain, increasing ease-of-use, and lowering the overall costs of information security. in order to accomplish more with less, NitroSecurity is utilizing the high performance capabilities of our patented data management engine to break a long standing "Catch 22" of information security: it is now possible to collect more information than ever, and provide real-time analysis of that data at the same time. With NitroSecurity's highly integrated suite of security and information analysis systems, it is now possible to increase the efficiency of your information security, improving overall security despite increasing financial pressures.
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