Security Orchestration and Automation
Optimize the threat mitigation process with security orchestration and automation
Unify tasks with security orchestration tools
Security orchestration tools can help ensure security measures are both efficient and effective. SolarWinds® Security Event Manager (SEM) is built to gather, normalize, and analyze data from anti-malware programs, IDS/IPS solutions, and firewalls, as well as event logs from servers, routers, switches, user endpoints, and more.
Stop managing your security tools individually. SEM is designed to make it easy to achieve a real-time, unified view for faster log analysis. Centralized logging and monitoring can help you see whether critical configuration and rule changes are functional. Simplify your workflow even further by utilizing orchestration for tracking files, folders, and Windows Registry settings with the File
Integrity Monitoring tool included in SolarWinds SEM.
Integrate intelligence with security automation tools
Security automation enables you to avoid time-intensive manual tasks like scouring log data for threats. SEM offers
machine-driven normalization of logs and files, along with advanced search and data visualization options. Security
Event Manager is built to compare network activity to an integrated threat intelligence database, which offers
researched, regularly updated insight into known threats like bad IPs. This immediate, actionable intelligence helps
empower you to address security and compliance concerns more quickly.
Configure tools and alerts with cybersecurity automation
SEM is designed with advanced workflow options to help ensure no threats go overlooked. Use predefined filters organized by categories to achieve real-time visibility into domain activity. It’s also easy to drill down into event name details, including insertion/detection time, source IP, destination account, and even severity level. You can also create custom filters and define conditions as needed using SolarWinds SEM.
Additionally, admins can leverage automatic alerts to optimize their security orchestration processes. By enabling in-console or email notifications, SEM can help users detect specific types of network, server, application, or end-user activity that could signal potential threats.
Automate compliance reporting workflows
Ensuring compliance is a critical part of the security orchestration process. SolarWinds SEM is built to help collect the log data required to reconstruct violations across system and user activities. Streamline reporting with over 300 built-in report templates, including predefined IT compliance templates for common industry regulations like PCI DSS, GLBA, SOX, NERC CIP, HIPAA, and more. Or, build custom filters for audience-specific reports based on specific time periods.
SEM also lets you include visual graphs and extensive details to support your findings. Plus, you can schedule reports to run every day, every week, or whenever needed—simply view in-console, print, or export to share.
Quickly respond to potential cyberthreats
With SolarWinds SEM, you can gain insight into event correlations across tens of thousands of network components, including devices, applications, and databases to better configure automated responses to identified threats or suspicious activity. SEM is built to correlate time- and transaction-based events across your domain.
The built-in Active Responses in SEM are designed to automate a wide range of threat mitigation actions. You can use over 700 out-of-the-box event
correlation rules to perform multiple response actions at once. For instance, you can integrate rules with the continually updated feed of malicious hosts in SEM to block traffic to and from problem sources. You can also immediately enable or disable accounts, shut down devices, and even block USB connections.
Get More on Security Orchestration and Automation
Do you find yourself asking…
Security orchestration entails integrating all the security tools and functions IT admins need to successfully and efficiently protect against network threats. All too often, admins end up addressing security for individual network components on a case-by-case basis.
Security orchestration involves integrating security tools like anti-malware or antivirus software, intrusion detection software, firewalls, and similar components. This integration should include user access information and activity, such as Active Directory data. Orchestration should also integrate applications that aren’t specific to security, as threats to a network can emerge from anywhere. Even software that is missing a key software patch or update can leave the door open for an attack. A major part of security orchestration is reconfiguring your security workflow to offer full visibility across these many components. Successful orchestration will also incorporate tools for incident response, so that there is a seamless flow between risk identification and mitigation.
Security automation, or machine-driven actions, is key to security orchestration, as automation is a critical part of successfully reorganizing your security workflow. Admins should have a way to collect data automatically from across their network and tools that can automatically identify potential threats. Automation also plays into orchestration in the form of immediate alerts. Security orchestration and automation platforms should also perform automated threat response functions that quarantine components until admins can more thoroughly address the issue.
Security orchestration entails integrating all the security tools and functions IT admins need to successfully and efficiently protect against network threats. All too often, admins end up addressing security for individual network components on a case-by-case basis.
Security orchestration involves integrating security tools like anti-malware or antivirus software, intrusion detection software, firewalls, and similar components. This integration should include user access information and activity, such as Active Directory data. Orchestration should also integrate applications that aren’t specific to security, as threats to a network can emerge from anywhere. Even software that is missing a key software patch or update can leave the door open for an attack. A major part of security orchestration is reconfiguring your security workflow to offer full visibility across these many components. Successful orchestration will also incorporate tools for incident response, so that there is a seamless flow between risk identification and mitigation.
Security automation, or machine-driven actions, is key to security orchestration, as automation is a critical part of successfully reorganizing your security workflow. Admins should have a way to collect data automatically from across their network and tools that can automatically identify potential threats. Automation also plays into orchestration in the form of immediate alerts. Security orchestration and automation platforms should also perform automated threat response functions that quarantine components until admins can more thoroughly address the issue.
Optimize security orchestration and automation to defend your network
Security Event Manager
- Orchestrate your security efforts with insight into network-wide log data.
- Automate custom alerts and set event-based threat responses.
- Benefit from business-critical features like compliance reporting.
Starts at