Day by day more & more businesses are getting an alarming array of cybersecurity threats. The threats vary from DDoS attacks and ransomware to phishing and SQL injections, businesses must contend with the daily risks of evolving cybercrime as bad nation state actors become better organized and more sophisticated.
As with every technological solution, the best option will depend on a confluence of factors unique to the business. For instance, if the organization operates in the vital fields to national security, such as oil and natural gas or defense technology, a cybersecurity architecture well-suited to digital threats from hostile nation-state actors to organized cybercrime rings that target those sectors is required. This generation of sophisticated multivector attack types can hit network, endpoint, mobile, and cloud environments as part of well-coordinated campaigns, which is significantly more disruptive than the traditional virus attacks because of their enormous impact. Also, cybercriminals specialize in different areas of the cybercrime market. Specialized criminals are another reason why cybercrime progresses at a much faster rate.
Accordingly, the business will need cybersecurity solutions that simultaneously warn them of current attacks on the system and comb through data to monitor for ongoing, less noticeable irregularities to protect against zero day or unknown attacks.
SIEM tools are designed to help organizations detect and respond to security threats. The tools include features such as log management, threat detection, and incident response capabilities.. SIEM tools can help organizations identify potential security threats in real time, reduce the impact of security breaches, and comply with regulatory requirements. The top open source SIEM tools are OpenSearch, OSSEC, Suricata, Prelude and Apache Metron.
Though SIEM is essential tool for SOC operations, with the growing sophistication of organized, modern cyber attackers and their highly-targeted techniques, it alone is not sufficient. To best identify and stop zero-day cyber attacks, the organization needs SOAR and threat intelligence integrated tools
SOAR, is a stack of compatible software programs that enables an organization to collect data about security threats and respond to security events with little or no human assistance. SOAR platforms have three components: security orchestration which integrates disparate internal and external systems; security automation which can prioritize threats, recommend action and automate future responses using AI and machine learning; security response offers a single view for analysts into the planning, managing, monitoring and reporting of actions carried out for the threats detected. The top SOAR products are : Tines, Sumo Logic, CrowdSec, Blumira open XDR, Chronicle and Shuffle
By using threat intelligence organizations can create greater visibility into their threat landscape, providing the needed context for monitoring and determining the actions of bad actors, and determining where organizations may be most vulnerable from an attack. Many organizations benefit by using threat intelligence to better help them prioritize, guide, and add value to SIEM. Applying threat intelligence to the process of uncovering potential indicators of compromise and malicious hosts helps deliver powerful security capabilities against the zero-day attacks. Top threat intelligence platforms are LookingGlass Cyber Solutions, Insights, SolarWinds Security Event Manager, ThreatConnect and Recorded Future.