Compliance Reporting / SIEM Services
Overview
The need for compliance with government mandated regulatory guidelines is a reality in today's business world. While some regulations apply only to publicly traded companies like the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, others apply to all companies in specific industries like healthcare, financial services and insurance. These include regulations such as
- GLBA - Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act
- HIPAA - Health Insurance Portability And Accountability Act
- PCI DSS - Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard
- FISMA - Federal Information Security Management Act
A well-designed compliance reporting system can greatly reduce the difficulty in meeting compliance reporting guidelines. Such a system involves processes and technology to timely share critical information, establish incident management plans, provide standardized reports and spreadsheets, related audit trails and the archiving of the log data.
Having a well-designed compliance reporting system in place helps demonstrate that your organization has performed due diligence in meeting these requirements.
Regardless of the industry, best practices specify that the best sources of data to detect most network anomalies are the log files from routers and security appliances. This is normally accomplished by running Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) systems.
The SIEM is software that reads and correlates individual logs from multiple devices like firewalls, anti-virus, anti-spam solutions, intrusion prevention solutions, proxy servers, routers, operating systems and more in order to meet the requirements of regulatory compliance and maintain high security levels.
Compliance Reporting from L4 Networks
SIEM Services
L4 Networks offer a SIEM service as part of Managed Services offering. This can prove to be a cost effective solution for smaller organizations not skilled in IT security and log analyses. Our SIEM service provides the core features of
- Log Management
- Aggregated Reporting
- Identity-based Reporting
- Security Management
- Compliance Reporting
- Forensic Analysis
SIEM Products
For organizations that wish to deploy their own Siem we offer three products. The Cyberoam I-View, the Fortinet FortiManager, and the Juniper STRM products. These products are appliance based and can read the log files of any device that supports the ISO standard which these days is the majority.
Unique to Cyberoam is that their software (Cyberoam i-View ) has been place in the open-source community. It can be downloaded and run on your own “dedicated” server, although most customers prefer the appliance version. This is becuase the total cost of ownership is lower as it is purpose built with the high storage subsystem that SIEMS require.
Even if you have your own SIEM appliance, L4 Networks can manage it and your security infrastructure remotely. Contact us to learn more.
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