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Security Event Manager

Security Event Manager

Improve your security posture and quickly demonstrate compliance with an easy-to-use, affordable SIEM tool.

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Enhance security and compliance with our intuitive SIEM solution.

Elevate your security strategy with a simple and effective SIEM solution.

Compliance reporting

Advanced compliance reporting with predefined templates for PCI DSS, HIPAA, SOX, and more

Collect and correlate log data to help satisfy various compliance requirements

Using real-time log analysis and cross-event correlation from sources throughout your entire infrastructure, this compliance monitoring tool can quickly help uncover policy violations, identify attacks, and highlight threats.

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Cyberthreat intelligence

A cyber threat intelligence framework is critical for identifying and responding to security threats

Help improve security with threat intelligence tools

SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM) is an on-premise, advanced SIEM tool built with an active threat intelligence management system in the form of threat feeds designed to automatically detect and respond to user, application, and network threats.

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Automated incident response

Simplify the incident-response process with security incident management software

Respond to threats as soon as alarms are triggered

Active Response provides preconfigured, customizable actions for incident response based on which trigger conditions are satisfied, enabling you to proactively hunt and stop threats.

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Forensic analysis

Get actionable insights from centralized SIEM log data to detect and handle security risks in real time

Detect security risks with real-time analysis

With integrated threat detection capabilities, SEM can help you dig deep into security event logs and investigate incidents faster. SEM enables you to easily ascertain the cause and effect of events generated across the network infrastructure.

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File integrity monitoring

File integrity monitoring (FIM) protects sensitive information from theft, loss, and malware

Track file and directory access, movement, and shares

Using SEM, you can easily correlate system, Active Directory, and file audit events to obtain information on which user was responsible for accessing and changing a file and identify other users activities occurring before and after the file change.

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Detecting threats and demonstrating compliance doesn’t have to be complicated.

Do you find yourself asking…

  • Why does it take so long to find the log data I need?
  • What can I do to be more aware of security threats?
  • How can I make complex audit and compliance reporting easier?
  • How can we respond to cyberthreats faster?
  • How can I track file changes, directory access, movement, and shares?
  • Can I reduce the risk of unmanaged flash drives on my network?
  • How do we get logs to the right people and places and still have a centralized repository?

Why does it take so long to find the log data I need?

Security Event Manager comes with hundreds of pre-built connectors to gather logs from various sources, parse their data, and put it into a common readable format, creating a central location for you and your team to easily investigate potential threats, prepare for audits, and store logs.

Security Event Manager includes features to quickly and easily narrow in on the logs you need, such as visualizations, out-of-the-box filters, and simple, responsive text-based searching for both live and historical events. With scheduled search, you can save, load, and schedule your most commonly used searches.

See how your logs and events can better serve you

What can I do to be more aware of security threats?

Security Event Manager can act as your own SOC, alerting you to the most suspicious behaviors, and allowing you to focus more of your time and resources on other critical projects. SEM has hundreds of built in correlation rules to watch your network and piece together data from the various log sources to identify potential threats in real time. Not only will you have out-of-the-box correlation rules to help get you started, but the normalization of log data allows for an endless combination of rules to be created. Additionally, SEM has an integrated threat intelligence feed working to identify behaviors originating from known bad actors.

Find out more about how SEM can increase your visibility into suspicious behavior

How can I make complex audit and compliance reporting easier?

SEM provides hundreds of out-of-the-box reports to help you demonstrate compliance for HIPAA, PCI DSS, SOX, ISO, DISA STIGs, FISMA, FERPA, NERC CIP, GLBA, GPG13, and more.

Discover how SEM can help simplify the compliance reporting process

How can we respond to cyberthreats faster?

The cost of a data breach can be reduced by how quickly you identify the threat and start addressing it. With Security Event Manager, you can hasten your responses by automating them when certain correlation rules are triggered. Responses include block IPs, change privileges, disable accounts, block USB devices, kill applications, and more.

Learn how SEM can help reduce the impact of a cyberthreat

How can I track file changes, directory access, movement, and shares?

Modifications, deletions, and permission changes to files, folders, and registry settings could be the sign of a potential data breach. You can monitor and be alerted to suspicious or potentially malicious activity in sensitive files with Security Event Manager’s built-in File Integrity Monitoring (FIM) capabilities.

See how you can monitor file change activities with SEM

Can I reduce the risk of unmanaged flash drives on my network?

Unmanaged USB flash drives pose an ongoing risk to IT security Security Event Manager is designed to provide valuable insight into file and USB activity with the built-in USB defender. USB defender helps enforce USB policies and will take automated response if an unmanaged USB is plugged into your network.

Learn more about USB defender

How do we get logs to the right people and places and still have a centralized repository?

Security Event Manager is designed to easily forward raw event log data with syslog protocols (RFC3164 and RFC 5244) to an external application for further use or analysis. Additionally, with one click, you can export your filtered or searched log data to CSV, making it incredibly fast and easy to share log data with other teams or vendors.

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  • Why does it take so long to find the log data I need?

    Security Event Manager comes with hundreds of pre-built connectors to gather logs from various sources, parse their data, and put it into a common readable format, creating a central location for you and your team to easily investigate potential threats, prepare for audits, and store logs.

    Security Event Manager includes features to quickly and easily narrow in on the logs you need, such as visualizations, out-of-the-box filters, and simple, responsive text-based searching for both live and historical events. With scheduled search, you can save, load, and schedule your most commonly used searches.

    See how your logs and events can better serve you

  • What can I do to be more aware of security threats?

    Security Event Manager can act as your own SOC, alerting you to the most suspicious behaviors, and allowing you to focus more of your time and resources on other critical projects. SEM has hundreds of built in correlation rules to watch your network and piece together data from the various log sources to identify potential threats in real time. Not only will you have out-of-the-box correlation rules to help get you started, but the normalization of log data allows for an endless combination of rules to be created. Additionally, SEM has an integrated threat intelligence feed working to identify behaviors originating from known bad actors.

    Find out more about how SEM can increase your visibility into suspicious behavior

  • How can I make complex audit and compliance reporting easier?

    SEM provides hundreds of out-of-the-box reports to help you demonstrate compliance for HIPAA, PCI DSS, SOX, ISO, DISA STIGs, FISMA, FERPA, NERC CIP, GLBA, GPG13, and more.

    Discover how SEM can help simplify the compliance reporting process

  • How can we respond to cyberthreats faster?

    The cost of a data breach can be reduced by how quickly you identify the threat and start addressing it. With Security Event Manager, you can hasten your responses by automating them when certain correlation rules are triggered. Responses include block IPs, change privileges, disable accounts, block USB devices, kill applications, and more.

    Learn how SEM can help reduce the impact of a cyberthreat

  • How can I track file changes, directory access, movement, and shares?

    Modifications, deletions, and permission changes to files, folders, and registry settings could be the sign of a potential data breach. You can monitor and be alerted to suspicious or potentially malicious activity in sensitive files with Security Event Manager’s built-in File Integrity Monitoring (FIM) capabilities.

    See how you can monitor file change activities with SEM

  • Can I reduce the risk of unmanaged flash drives on my network?

    Unmanaged USB flash drives pose an ongoing risk to IT security Security Event Manager is designed to provide valuable insight into file and USB activity with the built-in USB defender. USB defender helps enforce USB policies and will take automated response if an unmanaged USB is plugged into your network.

    Learn more about USB defender

  • How do we get logs to the right people and places and still have a centralized repository?

    Security Event Manager is designed to easily forward raw event log data with syslog protocols (RFC3164 and RFC 5244) to an external application for further use or analysis. Additionally, with one click, you can export your filtered or searched log data to CSV, making it incredibly fast and easy to share log data with other teams or vendors.

    Security Event Manager - Settings
    Get streamlined with centralized log management

Collect, Normalize, and Analyze Logs from Hundreds of Sources

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