Managed Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)

Threat detection is a major component of business intelligence in today's world, but it's also expensive. Managed SIEM is the perfect solution for small to medium-sized businesses that require top-notch cybersecurity but lack the resources to handle it in-house. Our cost-effective managed detection services provide you with a comprehensive approach to safeguarding your enterprise against cyber threats.

GSI's cutting-edge managed SIEM and SOC offer a holistic approach to threat detection and response. Our managed SIEM team is dedicated to efficiently monitoring security events, detecting and neutralizing potential risks, and ensuring that your organization meets compliance standards.

With our expert guidance, you can make well-informed choices to boost your organization's security posture. By centralizing security event data, our advanced threat detection eliminates any blind spots, effectively managing potential risks and keeping your enterprise safe and secure.

Learn what managed security services may be best for you with a no-cost consultation from one of our cybersecurity professionals.

What is a SIEM?

SIEM is a powerful cyber security tool that gathers security notifications and event data to provide comprehensive security monitoring. It ensures compliance and generates compliance reports by collecting data from all systems.

With its powerful automation capabilities and machine learning, SIEM deployment will integrate threat intelligence feeds, blacklists, and geolocation data to reduce false positives and detect hidden cybersecurity issues, making it one of the most essential security tools available.

While you can build your own SIEM tool, this is time-consuming, which is why so many organizations rely on managed SIEM providers instead.

What is a SOC?

A Security Operations Center (SOC) is an essential component of threat detection and response. While smaller organizations may rely on their IT staff for this task, larger organizations require a SOC to manage the sheer volume of events.

To effectively manage these alerts, the SOC leverages an SIEM that incorporates alerts from various components, such as endpoints, network equipment, firewalls, servers (internal or web), cloud resources, virtual devices, mobile devices, and applications.

How Do a SIEM and a SOC Work Together as a Managed SIEM?

The seamless integration of an SIEM system and a SOC (Security Operations Center) is a formidable combination. The SIEM acts as the first line of defense, collecting and analyzing security data, while the SOC validates and investigates alerts, taking prompt and effective action for incident response and remediation.

With the SIEM's crucial role in reporting, compliance, and continuous improvement, security incidents can be detected and resolved efficiently. Together, they form a collaborative and efficient security operations framework that leaves no room for vulnerabilities. Although larger organizations have their own SOC staff, most SMBs lack the necessary resources to manage in-house, which is why they often hire a managed SIEM provider.

In our managed SIEM, the SIEM and SOC seamlessly collaborate to provide a comprehensive and affordable approach to safeguarding SMBs against cyber threats. Our team is committed to monitoring security events efficiently, detecting and mitigating potential risks, and ensuring compliance standards are met.

Our security experts can help you make informed decisions to enhance your organization's cyber security. Centralized security event management eliminates any blind spots, effectively managing potential risks and keeping your enterprise secure.

What challenges are addressed by a Managed SIEM?

A managed SIEM tool addresses a variety of business challenges, including:

Compliance with regulatory requirements
Internal cybersecurity expertise cost
Incident response/mitigation with real-time alerts
Automated response management
Aggregation, cross-correlation, and analysis of event logs
Security intelligence
Scalability

Reasons to Hire a Managed SIEM Provider

Managed security services are critical for organizations seeking to strengthen their threat detection and response. By consolidating all security monitoring and event data into a central location, SIEM eliminates blind spots and provides a comprehensive view of potential threats. With SIEM, suspicious activities can be detected quickly, reducing the chances of false positives.

Threat intelligence SIEM ensures that potential security problems are identified and dealt with before they escalate into a full-blown security breach. Additionally, our managed SIEM service allows for comprehensive monitoring and enforcement of corporate policies, ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements such as PCI, HIPAA, and FFIEC.

With managed SIEM solutions from a highly qualified service provider, organizations can rest easy knowing that they are well-prepared to tackle any potential security threats.

Challenge

Limited Resources / Expertise

Solution

Managed SIEM providers afford access to a team of experienced security analysts who possess the expertise, skills, and tools to effectively manage and respond to incidents. SIEM as a Service helps SMBs leverage specialized expertise without the need for extensive hiring or training.

Challenge

Difficulty Meeting Compliance, Regulatory, Supply Chain Requirements

Solution

A managed SIEM provider has powerful capabilities that enable businesses to effortlessly showcase their compliance with various security standards and regulations like PCI DSS, HIPAA, GDPR, and more. By leveraging these capabilities, businesses can generate compliance reports with utmost efficiency, ultimately saving valuable time and effort.

Challenge

Business Email Compromise Trend

Solution

Managed SIEM providers can play a major role in helping organizations detect and respond to Business Email Compromise (BEC) attacks through log monitoring, analytics, user behavior analysis, event correlation, and integration with external threat intelligence feeds.

Challenge

Lack of Access to Threat Intelligence & Its Potential Impact on Business

Solution

Managed SIEM integrates external threat intelligence feeds, enhancing security monitoring by cross-referencing events with known activity indicators.

Challenge

Data overload from multiple systems creates alert fatigue and log data

Solution

With managed SIEM, you'll access a centralized hub that effortlessly gathers, organizes, and oversees logs from various origins. This streamlines log management, empowering technical teams to effortlessly delve into logs, swiftly address problems, and thoroughly investigate security incidents.

AICPA SOC 2 Certified

GSI is SOC 2 certified by the American Institute of CPAs (AICPA) which demonstrates that GSI has specific security controls in place.

Sub-5-Minute Response Time

Security alerts need to be handled fast: once you detect threats, there's no time to waste. We're proud to have an average response time of less than five minutes for our managed SIEM service.

100% Signature Guarantee

All Services Backed by GSI’s Signature 100% Guarantee.

Application Expertise

GSI's enterprise application experts have an average of 18+ years of security expertise as well as enterprise applications, industry, cloud, business, managed services, managed threat detection, security orchestration, and critical infrastructure experience.

Certified CISO & vCISO Resources

Do you need Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) or virtual Chief Information Security Officer (vCISO) resources? We can help you acquire the security teams you need to protect your IT infrastructure. GSI has certified Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) and virtual Chief Information Security Officer (vCISO) resources.

Certified ISO 27001 Lead Implementer

GSI has certified ISO 27001 Lead Implementer resources on staff. We're certified to implement ISO 27001 conforming solutions, with the structure, governance, and policies to meet all Information Security Management System (ISMS) standards.