Monthly Blog Round-Up – April 2015

Here is my next monthly "Security Warrior" blog round-up of top 5 popular posts/topics this month:

1. “Why No Open Source SIEM, EVER?” contains some of my SIEM thinking from 2009. Is it relevant now? Well, you be the judge.  Current emergence of open source log search tools, BTW, does not break the logic of that post. SIEM requires a lot of work, whether you paid for the software, or not. [282 pageviews]
2. “Simple Log Review Checklist Released!” is often at the top of this list – the checklist is still a very useful tool for many people. “On Free Log Management Tools” is a companion to the checklist (updated version) [116 pageviews]
3. “Top 10 Criteria for a SIEM?” came from one of my last projects I did when running my SIEM consulting firm in 2009-2011 (for my recent work on evaluating SIEM, see this document) [114 pageviews]
4. My classic PCI DSS Log Review series is always popular! The series of 18 posts cover a comprehensive log review approach (OK for PCI DSS 3.0 as well), useful for building log review processes and procedures , whether regulatory or not. It is also described in more detail in our Log Management book and mentioned in our PCI book (just out in its 4th edition!) [100+ pageviews to the main tag]
5. “New SIEM Whitepaper on Use Cases In-Depth OUT!” (dated 2010) presents a whitepaper on select SIEM use cases described in depth with rules and reports [using now-defunct SIEM product]; also see this SIEM use case in depth and this for a more current list of popular SIEM use cases. [92 pageviews of total 5079 pageviews to all blog pages]

In addition, I’d like to draw your attention to a few recent posts from my Gartner blog:

Current research on security analytics:

• Now That We Have All That Data What Do We Do, Revisited
• Who Validates Alerts Validated by Your Alert Validator Software?
• Killed by AI Much? A Rise of Non-deterministic Security!
• SIEM / DLP Add-on Brain
• Those Pesky Users: How To Catch Bad Usage of Good Accounts
• Security Analytics Lessons Learned — and Ignored!
• Security Analytics: Projects vs Boxes (Build vs Buy)?
• Do You Want “Security Analytics” Or Do You Just Hate Your SIEM?
• Security Analytics – Finally Emerging For Real?
• Why No Security Analytics Market?

Miscellaneous fun posts:

• RSA 2015: Rise of Chaos!!
• The Future Is Here … And It Is … Network? Endpoint?
• Defeat The Casual Attacker First!!
• On “Defender’s Advantage”
• Bye-bye, Compliance Thinking. Welcome, Military Thinking!
• All My Research Published in 2014

(see all my published Gartner research here)
Also see my past monthly and annual “Top Popular Blog Posts” – 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014.
Disclaimer: most content at SecurityWarrior blog was written before I joined Gartner on Aug 1, 2011 and is solely my personal view at the time of writing. For my current security blogging, go here.
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