Modern SIEM Mysteries. Look outside, we are in 2020 (can… | by Anton Chuvakin | Anton on Security | Medium

Look outside, we are in 2020 (can anybody really forget that?). So, we are not in 2002 anymore (perhaps the birth year of modern-ish SIEM), neither are we in 2012… So, depending on how you count, SIEM technology (and SIM/SEM before it) has existed for almost a quarter of a century. Funny enough, my involvement with SIEM started in 2002, exactly. In light of this, any observer will find it at least a little bit peculiar that in 2020 people are challenged by roughly the same things about SIEM as they were during its younger years. Here is a SIEM poll that we just ran (Twitter, July 2020): Note an oversize number of votes (~1400); this tweet impressions count is rapidly getting to 100K. You should definitely read up on the comments if you are curious about the sentiment about this security technology today (An easy challenge: count [or guess] how many people in this thread stated “I just love my SIEM, it does everything perfectly at a reasonable cost”…) However, this blog is not about the

Look outside, we are in 2020 (can anybody really forget that?). So, we are not in 2002 anymore (perhaps the birth year of modern-ish SIEM), neither are we in 2012… So, depending on how you count, SIEM technology (and SIM/SEM before it) has existed for almost a quarter of a century. Funny enough, my involvement with SIEM started in 2002, exactly. In light of this, any observer will find it at least a little bit peculiar that in 2020 people are challenged by roughly the same things about SIEM as they were during its younger years. Here is a SIEM poll that we just ran (Twitter, July 2020): Note a