SIEMple Technology

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SIEMple technology A guide on setting up an SIEM in your environment

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SIEMple technology A guide on setting up an SIEM in your environment

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  1. 1 SIEMple technology A guide on setting up an SIEM in your environment
  2. 2 1. Researching options and setting goals 2. Implementing in your environment
  3. 3 What is a SIEM? Security Information Event Management, but what does that mean? • Log Collection • Log Correlation • Alerting • Log Retention
  4. 4 What value are you trying to create? Faster incident response?
  5. 5 Collecting network logs Firewalls, IDS/IPS, Netflow, WAFs, Web Proxies
  6. 6 Collecting end user logs EMET, Sysmon, Local Firewall, Installed Apps, Event Logs, Command line history
  7. 7 Collecting security logs Endpoint "protection", App Whitelisting, Vulnerability scanners, Honeypots
  8. 8 Correlating logs 2 successful logins from same person in the same day from two different countries
  9. 9 What resources will you need? How many events per second/hour? • How many of those events do you need to store/process/correlate in a given time period? • How long do you need to store everything?
  10. 10 Phased Approach Options • Most critical systems • Compliance requirements • Least amount of visibility • Annoying ones that need professional service hours to resolve.
  11. 11 Tweak, alter, test, & more tweaking Dont let your SIEM • Cry wolf • Nag you repeatedly • Do nothing
  12. 12 Have department liaisons and have them communicate: • Downtime • Upgrades • Major config changes • System replacements and additions
  13. 13 Periodic reviews True for internal or external SIEMS Are your alerts still relevant? Are you still getting logs from required sources? • Did you miss a system, device, or application? • Are you getti…
  14. 14 Wrap up Find the solution that meets your needs (Supported devices, time and people resources)
  15. 15 Russell Butturini @tcstoolhaxor My wife: Andrea BSides LV You guys!

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