Symantec SIEM Gives Real-Time Security Information

Symantec Security Information Manager is a comprehensive SIEM solution that offers enterprise-wide log collection, management and retention. It enables organizations to centralize and analyze large amounts of diverse log data. 

One such example of how Symantec has helped companies is PGi.  This innovative webinar and mobile conferencing company needed to protect its diverse, heterogeneous environment of 2,000 endpoints. To accomplish this, PGi turned to Symantec security solutions. Key benefits included improved risk posture and protection of its valuable customer data.

Symantec’s industry-leading correlation engine brings together organizational data, security event information and threat intelligence. It allows organizations to prioritize security incident response activities based on business risk. This proactive approach allows online business owners to more effectively defend their enterprises from threats while demonstrating compliance with industry regulations.

Key Features of Symantec:

• Supports virtual environment deployments
• Soft appliance deployments
• Custom log management/universal collectors
• Over 150 out-of-box compliance reporting templates
• Multi-conditional correlation rules

Key Benefits Associated with Symantec’s Features:

• Leveraging its highly scalable architecture to aggregate and normalize large quantities of diverse event data, Symantec Security Information Manager gives security leaders a composite view of potential threats and security exposures.
  
  
• Symantec Security Information Manager brings together event, threat and organizational data, allowing organizations to prioritize and remediate incidents based on business risk. Symantec Security Information Manager collects and analyzes events in real time using rules-based correlation.
  
  
• Offering over 200 predefined source collectors, Symantec Security Information Manager’s log collection capability gathers event logs from a wide range of sources throughout your infrastructure. If required, custom collectors may also be created to collect information from unique business applications and data sources.
  
  
• Symantec Security Information Manager provides a real-time correlation engine with more than 80 predefined rules, covering a wide range of security signatures, to detect and identify malicious activities.
  
  
• Symantec Security Information Manager helps security leaders demonstrate compliance by offering more than 400 out-of-the-box dashboards, reports and queries. Because all content is available in easy to use templates, customization is significantly simplified.

In fact, Symantec was honored as one of the world’s most ethical companies. In an official blog, Symantec states why that was the case: “Operating with integrity, and with a sharp focus on ethics and compliance, is the foundation of the corporate responsibility we have for all of our stakeholders. What we do and how we do it matters. It matters to our employees. It matters to our customers. It matters to our shareholders, our suppliers, our partners, and everyone we work with around the globe.”

If you need a proven, trustworthy SIEM partner, choose Symantec.