Graylog Security
The Critical Component for Effective Security Operations
Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) solutions remain vital to modern SecOps. Organizations of all sizes rely on their SIEM to provide the comprehensive visibility needed to detect threats early, respond quickly, and stay ahead of attacks. Without the right SIEM, security teams can struggle with data overload and achieving their threat detection, investigation, and response (TDIR) goals. Whether evaluating your first SIEM or looking to replace one you've outgrown, investing in Graylog Security is the first step toward equipping your security team for success.
The only SIEM/TDIR platform with native data routing, data tiering, and data archiving in the same product.
A Robust TDIR Strategy Starts with Graylog Security
Graylog Security is the ideal SIEM to serve as the heartbeat of your SOC. It’s where everything comes together for a holistic security view of your organization’s entire infrastructure. Unfortunately, the market is saturated with traditional SIEM solutions that no longer meet the needs of modern organizations.
These outdated monoliths fall woefully short in the areas of:
- Cost Effectiveness: Traditional SIEMs can be expensive to operate due to compound costs associated with hardware, software licenses, maintenance, and convoluted communication of pricing strategies. This makes it difficult for CISOs to paint an accurate picture of annual cost.
- Analytics and Detection Capabilities: Traditional SIEMs often rely heavily on rule-based monitoring, which can be less effective against sophisticated, more modern threats. They also usually lack the advanced analytics and machine learning capabilities to detect and respond to complex, evolving cyber threats.
- Scalability: Traditional SIEMs often struggle with the vast amounts of data generated by modern and complex IT infrastructure environments, failing to scale efficiently to process and analyze data from a growing number of sources, leading to performance bottlenecks.
- Management and Maintenance: Traditional SIEMs can be challenging to manage and maintain with limited resources. They often require specialized knowledge and significant manual effort to update rules, parse new log formats, and maintain system health.
- Integration: Legacy SIEMs might have limited capabilities to integrate with newer security tools and technologies, creating silos of information and obscuring a unified view of security events across the organization.
SIEM Done Right with Graylog
Built on the Graylog Platform, Graylog Security is the industry’s best-of-breed TDIR. It simplifies analysts' day-to-day cybersecurity activities with an unmatched workflow and user experience while simultaneously providing short- and long-term budget flexibility in the form of low total cost of ownership (TCO) that CISOs covet.
Graylog Security is designed to be a robust, scalable solution capable of helping analysts detect and respond to the cybersecurity threats of today and tomorrow.
Curated Threat Coverage
Graylog Security is an advanced SIEM platform designed to optimize the Analyst Experience (AX) and help strengthen your organization’s security posture by providing capabilities that help your security team stay ahead of potential threats with threat coverage that is curated to align with your organizational SecOps objectives, efficiently manage data for lower total cost of ownership (TCO), and get to incident resolution faster with guided analyst workflows that are streamlined to help you get from A to B in less time.
Decreased risk through aligned detection coverage
Many SIEMs provide generic threat detection, which means your team could miss critical, organization-specific threats while wasting time on irrelevant alerts. Graylog Security tailors its detection coverage based on your organization’s security goals, compliance needs, and risk profile. This ensures your team is alerted to relevant threats while minimizing noise, decreasing your exposure to risks, and reducing the likelihood of a critical threat being overlooked.
Security content delivered to you
Spend less time developing custom cyber content and quickly understand how well you are securing your organization and adhering to specific compliance regulations with out-of-the-box content on day one. With Graylog Security, you continuously receive Graylog Illuminate content packs - a library of curated event definitions, alerts, and dashboards you can use for targeted security and compliance use cases.
A visual picture of current and potential threat coverage
Graylog Security automatically maps your enabled detections to MITRE ATT&CK Framework tactics so you can quickly ascertain your active threat coverage. Graylog Security can also help you strengthen your security posture by providing guidance on missing, but available coverage that can be easily downloaded, installed, and enabled.
USE CASE
Curated Threat Coverage
Decrease your risk with Graylog Security by aligning threat detection coverage to meet your security objectives with the following features:
- Graylog Illuminate content packs provide a library of curated event definitions, alerts, and dashboards for targeted security and compliance use cases.
- Alert and event management capabilities make assigning exceptions, status updates, and notes to individual alerts easy.
- The Threat Coverage Widget Provides a visualization of the detections that are enabled and mapped to the MITRE ATT&CK Framework tactics.
Efficient Data Management
In the world of cybersecurity, data can be both a blessing and a curse. The more data you can collect, the more visibility you have into potential threats. However, without efficient management, this influx of data can overwhelm your storage systems, inflate costs, and drown your team in irrelevant information. Graylog Security is designed to help optimize data ingestion, storage, and analysis, ensuring that your team only retains what’s truly valuable without compromising security. By automating much of the data management process, we help you reduce TCO while ensuring your SecOps team can focus on what matters most: protecting the organization.
Reduced TCO through storage optimization
As data grows exponentially, storage costs can skyrocket. Without a strategy for prioritizing and archiving only essential security data, organizations end up paying for expensive storage while spending excessive time on administrative tasks. Graylog Security uses smart data routing capabilities to help focus on “active data” by filtering lower-value log data (“standby data") to a Data Warehouse where it can be easily restored for use in future investigations.
Three data storage options for increased flexibility
In terms of data archiving, most security analysts are familiar with a hot tier that is optimized for storing data that is actively accessed for incident investigations (stored on average for 30 – 180 days), and a cold tier that is optimized for storing data that is infrequently accessed or modified (stored for at least 90 days on average). Graylog Security introduces a “warm” tier where data can be stored, enabling less expensive remote or on-prem storage options while providing the same high durability, search and retrieval latency, and throughput characteristics as hot tier data.
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Efficient Data Management
Reduce your TCO with Graylog Security by ensuring optimal storage opportunities:
- Data routing can help streamline licensing for lower-value log data while it is being stored for future incident investigations.
Data tiering provides a “warm” storage tier that enables less expensive remote or on-premises storage options while providing the same lightning-fast and robust search experience as if data were in “hot” storage.
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Guided Analyst Workflow
A SIEM is only as powerful as the team of analysts using it. Many security teams struggle with inconsistent investigation processes, wasted time on low-priority tasks, and a lack of collaboration during incident response. This results in slow resolution and missed opportunities to stop threats in their tracks. Graylog Security addresses these challenges with guided workflows that help analysts work smarter and more efficiently. By automating routine tasks and providing investigation summaries, we streamline security operations and help your team focus on high-priority incidents.
Faster resolution of critical alerts
Slow resolution times increase the risk of data breaches, as attackers exploit delays to further infiltrate networks. Graylog Security delivers real-time, tangible risk analysis on valuable assets, pushing high-priority incidents to the forefront and providing your team with the context and tools they need to quickly prioritize which incidents to tackle, effectively minimizing the time attackers have to exploit vulnerabilities and significantly reducing the window for potential damage.
Increased efficiency by automating routine tasks
Security teams spend too much time on routine tasks like log analysis and incident classification, leaving less time to focus on real threats. Graylog Security automates repetitive tasks, such as correlating logs and scoring incidents, freeing up analysts to focus on prioritizing meaningful investigations. This boosts overall efficiency and ensures that high-priority incidents get the attention they deserve.
Improved collaboration for seamless handoff
Poor communication during incident response leads to missed steps, delayed resolution, and increased risk. Graylog Security’s collaboration features ensure that incidents can be handed off between teams without losing context. The investigation workspace ensures that everyone is on the same page, leading to faster, more coordinated incident resolution.
USE CASE
Guided Analyst Workflow
Reduce key metrics like mean time to respond (MTTR) with Graylog Security by quickly resolving the alerts that matter with the following features:
- Asset-based risk modeling allows analysts to easily organize and prioritize working alerts by risk posed to an asset (users/machines) with topology-aware risk scoring, resulting in more efficient triage, and less alert fatigue.
- Vulnerability Scan Report Ingest — Automatically ingest vulnerability scan reports from Nessus and Microsoft Defender (reports are categorized as “assets”) to calculate higher fidelity risk scores.
- Investigation Timeline Visualization — Reduce investigation time by quickly understanding the temporal relationships of significant events within an investigation with chronological visualization.
- Investigation AI Reports — Reduce investigation time by automating the creation of ready-to-share incident response reports that can be delivered to stakeholders as part of the Incident Remediation and Recovery process with AI guidance that automatically interprets and summarizes the evidence pieces (messages and events) that were added to an incident investigation.
