abstract:Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) solutions are a combination of the formerly disparate product categories of SIM (security information management) and SEM (security event manager). SIEM technology provides real-time analysis of security alerts generated by network hardware and applications.
The architectureneeds tocover a range ofdirectivesfromsecurity, accesscontrol, andservicelevelagreements to businessworkflow, eventprocessing, and informationmanagementand business rules.
Arcsight sells securityinformationandeventmanagement (SIEM) software, a subset of enterprise security devoted to logging and analyzing behavior on a corporate network to find and prevent cyber-threats.