Alerting

In our last RBA blog post, we talked about some of the problems RBA can help solve. In this post, we explain the methodology we use with Splunk customers as their security teams start working with RBA. In working with our customers, the Splunk Superstar RBA Braintrust has developed a powerful methodology to kickstart your RBA implementation. From first moves to production, these four levels take you step-by-step through the process of successfully getting RBA up and running.

In our first blog in the Splunk RBA series, we introduced Risk-Based Alerting (RBA) and covered the basic principles of RBA. In the rest of this series, we explain how you can plan and then implement RBA within your organization. Are your security teams drowning in data and overwhelmed with alerts? Are you thinking that there must be a better way, some esoteric or forbidden knowledge, to produce higher-fidelity alerts and keep your team from burning out?

Proactive event notification is one of the most valuable components of centralized log management and SIEM. It allows us to identify problems, misconfigurations, and potential security risks at an early stage. One of the ways we can improve event notification within Graylog is through the use of Lookup Tables.

In a previous post, we discussed how alert overload can cripple security teams and prevent them from effectively detecting and responding to threats. In this post, we explore how no-code automation can help reduce the burden of alerts while providing the visibility and connectivity your organization requires. It's critical to have robust security solutions that not only help you detect but also block serious attacks before they cause any damage.

In cybersecurity, it's easy to feel like your successes don't matter. After all, if things go wrong and a failure happens, that’s a lot more likely to make front-page news. Media coverage of high-profile breaches is growing, even for companies that have invested heavily to build up their security programs. Security breaches are never fun, but they're even less enjoyable when you know that your company could have done something about it.

If you work in Security or Operations, you are surely familiar with the concept of “alert fatigue.” Alert fatigue Syndrome is the feeling of becoming desensitized to alerts, causing you to potentially ignore or minimize risks and harming your capability to respond adequately to potential security threats.