{"id":492,"date":"2017-10-09T11:39:45","date_gmt":"2017-10-09T15:39:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/security-information-event-management\/?p=492"},"modified":"2018-04-23T16:06:28","modified_gmt":"2018-04-23T20:06:28","slug":"introducing-siem-defined-glossary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/security-information-event-management\/introducing-siem-defined-glossary\/","title":{"rendered":"The Updated SIEM Glossary: Over 100 Terms Defined"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-699 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/security-information-event-management\/files\/2016\/06\/alphabetsoupSIEM.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/security-information-event-management\/files\/2016\/06\/alphabetsoupSIEM.jpg 800w, https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/security-information-event-management\/files\/2016\/06\/alphabetsoupSIEM-300x131.jpg 300w, https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/security-information-event-management\/files\/2016\/06\/alphabetsoupSIEM-768x336.jpg 768w, https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/security-information-event-management\/files\/2016\/06\/alphabetsoupSIEM-600x263.jpg 600w, https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/security-information-event-management\/files\/2016\/06\/alphabetsoupSIEM-180x79.jpg 180w, https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/security-information-event-management\/files\/2016\/06\/alphabetsoupSIEM-400x175.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/>In the past decade, Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) has emerged as one of the most essential tools in IT security. In 2017, SIEM is a mature market, and a mainstay in enterprise security, but that doesn\u2019t mean that dealing with SIEM and security analytics solutions has gotten any easier over the past decade.<\/p>\n<br \/>Widget not in any sidebars<br \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">SIEM has a reputation as a complex and convoluted product, and those complications often start with the most basic roadblock: jargon. There&#8217;s a seemingly endless torrent of terminology surrounding information security, and the acronyms just keep piling up\u2014first there was SIM and SEM, now we have SIEM. CmDb, DLP, DPI\u2014it can all get a little dizzying. Worst of all, you can hardly find an explanation that doesn\u2019t reference another half dozen ciphered terms.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 1em\">At Solutions Review, we do our best to provide IT professionals with the top Information Security\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"font-size: 1em\" href=\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/security-information-event-management\/category\/siem-news\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 1em\">, <\/span><a style=\"font-size: 1em\" href=\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/security-information-event-management\/category\/best-practices\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">best practices<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 1em\">, and\u00a0buyer\u2019s guides, and in keeping with that mission, we now bring you a quick and easy way to decipher the growing collection of SIEM terminology:\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"font-size: 1em\" href=\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/security-information-event-management\/siem-glossary-definition\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Solutions Review SIEM Glossary<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 1em\">.<\/span>SIEM may be keeping security from drowning in event data but it\u2019s burying them in acronyms.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">From Active Response to vulnerabilities, Solutions Review\u2019s A to Z SIEM Glossary\u00a0has definitions for over 50 of the most popular SIEM and Security Analytics terms and acronyms.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>Defined terms include:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><div class=\"column one-third\"><p>Active Directory<\/p>\n<p>Active Monitor<\/p>\n<p>Active Response<\/p>\n<p>Advanced Persistent Threat (APT)<\/p>\n<p>Analytics<\/p>\n<p>API<\/p>\n<p>Audit<\/p>\n<p>Bandwidth<\/p>\n<p>Big Data<\/p>\n<p>Big Data Analytics<\/p>\n<p>Black Hat<\/p>\n<p>Bot<\/p>\n<p>Botnet<\/p>\n<p>Breach<\/p>\n<p>CISSP<\/p>\n<p>CIO<\/p>\n<p>CISO<\/p>\n<p>Compliance<\/p>\n<p>CFAA<\/p>\n<p>CmDb<\/p>\n<p>Cybersecurity<\/p>\n<p>Dashboard<\/p>\n<p>Database<\/p>\n<p>Data Aggregation<\/p>\n<p>Data Exfiltration<\/p>\n<p>Data Flow Analysis<\/p>\n<p>DLP<\/p>\n<p>Data Migration<\/p>\n<p>Data Visualization<\/p>\n<p>DDoS<\/p>\n<p>DPI<\/p>\n<p>Encryption<\/p>\n<p>Endpoint<\/p>\n<p>Event<\/p>\n<p>Event Correlation<\/p>\n<p>Exploit<\/p>\n<p>False Positive<\/p>\n<p>FERPA<\/p>\n<p>FIM<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><\/div><\/p>\n<div class=\"column one-third\"><p>FISMA<\/p>\n<p>Flow<\/p>\n<p>Flow Log<\/p>\n<p>Flow Sources<\/p>\n<p>Gateway<\/p>\n<p>GLBA<\/p>\n<p>GPG 13<\/p>\n<p>GRC<\/p>\n<p>Hacker<\/p>\n<p>Heterogeneous Network<\/p>\n<p>HIPAA<\/p>\n<p>Honeypot<\/p>\n<p>Hybrid IT<\/p>\n<p>Identification<\/p>\n<p>Incident response<\/p>\n<p>Information Security<\/p>\n<p>Infrastructure<\/p>\n<p>IP<\/p>\n<p>Intrusion Detection and Prevention Systems<\/p>\n<p>Legacy Solution<\/p>\n<p>Local Area Network (LAN)<\/p>\n<p>Log Files<\/p>\n<p>Logging<\/p>\n<p>Log Aggregation<\/p>\n<p>Log Management<\/p>\n<p>Log Source<\/p>\n<p>Machine Learning<\/p>\n<p>Malware<\/p>\n<p>Metadata<\/p>\n<p>NERC CIP<\/p>\n<p>Network Behavior Anomaly Detection<\/p>\n<p>Network Monitoring<\/p>\n<p>Network Scanning<\/p>\n<p>Network Security<\/p>\n<p>Next Generation Firewall<\/p>\n<p>Node<\/p>\n<p>OSI Model<\/p>\n<p>OPSEC<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"column one-third last\"><p>Packet Segmentation<\/p>\n<p>PCI DSS<\/p>\n<p>Penetration Testing<\/p>\n<p>Perimeter<\/p>\n<p>Ping<\/p>\n<p>Predictive Analytics<\/p>\n<p>Ransomware<\/p>\n<p>Real-Time Analytics<\/p>\n<p>Remote Access Kit<\/p>\n<p>Reporting<\/p>\n<p>Rootkit<\/p>\n<p>Route Analytics<\/p>\n<p>Routing Protocols<\/p>\n<p>Sandbox<\/p>\n<p>Secure Sockets Layer<\/p>\n<p>SIEM<\/p>\n<p>SEM<\/p>\n<p>SIM<\/p>\n<p>SLA<\/p>\n<p>Security Incident<\/p>\n<p>Security Manager<\/p>\n<p>Security Policy<\/p>\n<p>SaaS<\/p>\n<p>SOX<\/p>\n<p>SD-WANf<\/p>\n<p>Spyware<\/p>\n<p>Targeted Attack<\/p>\n<p>Threat Intelligence<\/p>\n<p>Trojan<\/p>\n<p>UTM<\/p>\n<p>UBA<\/p>\n<p>Virus<\/p>\n<p>Vulnerability<\/p>\n<p>Vulnerability Scanning<\/p>\n<p>Web Server<\/p>\n<p>White Hat<\/p>\n<p>Wide Area Network<\/p>\n<p>Zero Day Attack<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><\/div><div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n<br \/>Widget not in any sidebars<br \/>\n<br \/>Widget not in any sidebars<br \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the past decade, Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) has emerged as one of the most essential tools in IT security. 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