Cyber Security operations center is protecting organizations and sensitive business data of customers. It ensures active monitoring of valuable assets of business with visibility, alerting and investigating threats and a holistic approach to managing risk.
Analytics service can be in-house or managed security service. Collecting event logs and analyzing logs with real-world attacks is the heart of the security operation center.
Events are generated by systems which are error codes, devices generate events with success or failure to its normal function.so event logging plays an important role to detect threats. In the organization, there are multiple number and flavors of  Windows, Linux, firewalls, IDS, IPS, Proxy, Netflow, ODBC, AWS, Vmware etc.
These devices usually track attackers footprints as logs and forward to SIEM tools to analyze. In this article, will see how events are pushed to log collector. To know more about windows events or event ids refer Here.
Log Collector
It’s a centralized server to receive logs from any devices. Here I have deployed Snare Agent in Windows 10 machine. So we will collect windows event logs and Detect attacks to windows 10 machine attacks using Snare Agent.
The snare is SIEM(SECURITY INCIDENT AND EVENT MANAGEMENT)Â Solution for log collector and event analyzer in various operating systems Windows, Linux, OSX Apple, and supports database agent MSSQL events generated by Microsoft SQL Server. It supports both Enterprise and Opensource Agents.
Recent research indicates that 51 percent of SOC teams feel emotionally overwhelmed by the impossible volume of security alerts they must deal with, with the stress impacting their home lives.
Increasing the maturity of a SOC allows analysts to stop fighting fires and focus on higher value work. With careful planning and the right combination of automation and standardized processes, a mature, effective, and world-class SOC can be established.
The danger of alert overload
The cybersecurity landscape has become increasingly hostile, and teams must deal with an ever-increasing barrage of security alerts. Teams have reported spending nearly a third of their time simply dealing with false positives, and we have long since passed the tipping point where these numbers can be dealt with on a manual basis.
This is exacerbated by the fact that the on-going skills gap means recruiting and retaining a full team of analysts has become an increasingly costly proposition. Few firms can afford large teams, and even an army of analysts will not be able to comfortably tackle hundreds of alerts a day in addition to their other duties.
In addition to the sheer number of alerts they must deal with, SOC teams are hampered by inefficient processes. Many analysts end up using an ad-hoc suite of security solutions cobbled together from different providers and great deal of time can be wasted every day as analysts swap back and forth between different solutions. There is no easy way to compare data from different tools to identify trends and more complex threats. Uniting solutions under a single management system can help to win back lost time and establish a single view of threat data.
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* Address core business and operational requirements, including sponsorship, management, policies, procedures, workspaces, staffing, and technology * Identify, recruit, interview, onboard, and grow an outstanding SOC team * Thoughtfully decide what to outsource and what to insource * Collect, centralize, and use both internal data and external threat intelligence * Quickly and efficiently hunt threats, respond to incidents, and investigate artifacts * Reduce future risk by improving incident recovery and vulnerability management * Apply orchestration and automation effectively, without just throwing money at them * Position yourself today for emerging SOC technologies
