ANOMALI Modern Siem Alternatives User Guide

ANOMALI Modern Siem Alternatives

Product Information

Specifications

• Product Name: Anomali Security Platform
• Features: ThreatStream, Lens, Match, Attack Surface Management, Digital Risk Protection
• Capabilities: Threat intelligence management, Natural Language Processing, Security telemetry gathering, Attack surface visibility, Digital risk protection

Product Usage Instructions

Anomali Security Platform Overview

The Anomali Security Platform offers a comprehensive set of capabilities to enhance threat visibility, threat intelligence management, and security analytics.

Below are the key components of the platform:

• ThreatStream: A threat intelligence management platform that curates and enriches data from various sources.
• Lens: Utilizes Natural Language Processing to streamline threat intelligence research and reporting.
• Match: Gathers security telemetry data for efficient storage and analysis.
• Attack Surface Management (ASM): Provides visibility into IT assets to fuel actionable security analytics.
• Digital Risk Protection (DRP): Combines human analysis with AI and ML insights to prevent attacks.

How to Use the Anomali Security Platform

1. Threat Intelligence Management: Utilize ThreatStream to curate and enrich raw threat data.
2. Natural Language Processing: Leverage Lens to automate threat intelligence scanning and reporting.
3. Security Telemetry Gathering: Use Match to collect security data from various controls for analysis.
4. Attack Surface Visibility: Implement ASM to gain comprehensive visibility into IT assets.
5. Digital Risk Protection: Activate DRP to combine human and AI insights for proactive threat prevention.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Q: What makes the Anomali Security Platform different from legacy SIEM solutions?

• A: The Anomali Security Platform offers modern capabilities such as advanced threat intelligence management,
• Natural Language Processing, and proactive digital risk protection, which legacy SIEMs may lack. It provides comprehensive visibility and actionable insights to enhance threat detection and response.

Q: How can organizations benefit from using the Anomali Security Platform?

• A: Organizations can benefit from improved threat visibility, faster threat detection, reduced total cost of ownership (TCO), and enhanced user experience by utilizing the Anomali Security Platform.
• It allows security teams to effectively manage threats in a dynamic environment and respond proactiCHALLENGE WITH LEGACY SIEMSvely to potential attacks.

CHALLENGES WITH LEGACY SEEM

• Complexity
  • Installing, configuring, and updating traditional SIEMs requires significant specialized expertise. This drives up operating costs substantially.
• Scalability
  • Most legacy SIEMs can’t handle massive data ingestion and queries efficiently. This requires constant tuning and trade-offs.
• Limited retention
  • 90 days is typically the maximum affordable data retention period. But attackers dwell for months or years.
• Blind spots
  • Storage limits force rolling deletions, creating visibility gaps. Critical security context gets lost.
• Slow hunt times
  • Batch-based indexing hampers hunting agility, with queries taking hours or days.
• Rising costs
  • Legacy SIEMs require perpetual upgrades, additional storage, and more personnel to manage complexity.

The High Costs of Legacy SIEMs

• Legacy SIEM (security information and event management) solutions are struggling to keep pace with modern threats and data volumes.
• Deploying and managing traditional SIEMs has become hugely complex, while high costs limit retention periods to 90 days in most cases.
• This constrains the security teams’ ability to hunt threats and understand full attack timelines. Many organizations are starting to replace legacy SIEMs to boost detection, accelerate response, and reduce TCO.

Coping with Limits of Legacy SIEMs

• Many security teams compensate through complex workarounds. Some deploy multiple SIEMs for retention tiering.
• Others manually backup event data to external sources. But these band-aids add cost and management burden while failing to deliver the underlying capabilities modern security programs need.
• The lack of historical visibility means most threats are detected via outside alerts from the FBI or other external parties long after the compromise.
• Limited scalability leads to unpredictable performance issues as data volumes grow. And the infrastructure sprawl creates data silos that prevent unified visibility and control.

Modern SIEM Alternatives

• Fortunately, purpose-built replacements are now available that meet today’s use cases.

Modern SIEM platforms deliver:

• Cloud-native and on-prem support
• Unlimited, long-term data retention
• Rapid search across petabytes of data
• Advanced ML/AI threat detection
• Tight integrations and automation
• Intuitive interfaces aligned to workflows
• Affordable tiered pricing that scales up
• For resource-constrained teams, replacing rigid and costly legacy SIEMs can significantly improve threat visibility, hunt times, TCO, and user experience.
• The limitations of traditional SIEMs necessitate a new approach.

Personas Goals

Practitioner Goals

• As a SOC Manager, my concern is the effectiveness of my security infrastructure and the ability of those controls to capture threat information promptly.
• Keeping up with continuous threats is a real challenge, mapping that in an actionable way to my internal attack surface is a fundamental challenge, and ensuring that my organization is aware of and able to respond to threats in a way that is timely and relevant is an area I often struggle against.

CISO Goals

• As the CISO, I am ultimately responsible for the success of my organization’s security investments. I need to persuade executive management and our board of directors of the importance of investing in rapid-response solutions that are adaptable enough to manage a highly dynamic threat environment and provide an immediate and actionable perspective on how this affects our internal potential attack surface. And everything I describe needs to be done in business terms.

ANOMALI CAPABILITIES

• ThreatStream
  • As a high-performance threat intelligence management platform, ThreatStrream curates and enriches raw data from hundreds of diverse sources of threat intelligence, including Anomali Labs curated feeds, open-source OSINT feeds, specialized premium feeds, and information sharing and analysis (ISAC) centers.
• Lens
  • Anomali Lens includes a powerful Natural Language Processing engine that helps operationalize threat intelligence by automatically scanning digital content to identify relevant threats and streamline the lifecycle of researching and reporting.
• Match
  • Anomali Match gathers security telemetry from various security controls such as endpoints, firewalls, cloud platforms, proxies, and DNS.
  • This data is stored in a scalable cloud-native data lake, ensuring efficient storage.
• Attack Surface Management
  • Anomali ASM provides comprehensive visibility into all IT assets, including shadow IT, to fuel actionable Match security analytics
• Digital Risk Protection
  • Anomali DRP combines expert human analysis with AI and ML insights to indicate which assets are most at risk, which threat poses the greatest danger, and how to prevent an attack before it happens. DRP also monitors for fake domains, social media accounts, brand impersonation, stolen PII, fraud campaigns, or stolen IP.

Anomali Contribution

• The Anomali Security Operations Platform is the core of an ecosystem of technologies that can accelerate an organization’s ability to detect and respond to threats within minutes of their appearance.
• This includes the world’s largest threat repository (ThreatStream), a security analytics-driven correlation engine (Match), and an NLP solution (Lens) that provides actionable context to a wide range of threats mapped to the organization’s attack surface.
• All of this is driven by a curated GPT solution that has made speed and accuracy the cornerstone of our solution to cybersecurity concerns.

Use Case Outcomes

• Immediate response is driven by GPT-enabled security analytics. Process terabytes of information in seconds, tracked against telemetry data going back years.
• Ease of deployment allows you to make changes and additions to your security environment measured in hours, not weeks, and at a significantly lower price point.
• Correlated information tracks telemetry across business lines that work from the same technology infrastructure, preventing lateral movement of attacks and driving collaboration across functional groups.
• Workflow Automation through accelerated detection and prioritization of threats, enabling SOC analysts to focus on more complex and strategic challenges and avoiding the day-to-day grind of high-speed transactional processing.
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• ThreatStream® is a registered trademark of Anomali Inc.
• Anomali Match™ (“Match”) and Anomali Lens™ (“Lens”) are trademarks of Anomali Inc.

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