Next-Gen SIEM vs.

SIEM
What are the major differences between traditional SIEM solutions and next-
gen SIEMs? At the core, both solutions have similar functionality, but legacy
SIEMs can’t handle the rising volume and complexity of data in today’s threat
landscape. With the increase in cloud adoption, mobile technologies, hybrid
datacenters, and remote workforces, next-gen SIEMs are much more suited
to meet the growing demand for threat detection and response across
disparate systems.

Next-gen SIEM solutions provide new capabilities for improving security

visibility and threat detection, while also streamlining the process for security
teams to manage their workload. Some core components of a next-gen SIEM
solution, include:

 Open and scalable architecture: Ability to streamline data from

disparate systems across on-prem, cloud, and mobile technology, in a
single entity.
 Real-time visualization tools: Features that help security teams
visualize related security events to depict threat incidents accurately.
 Big data architecture: Ability to collect and manage large, complex
data sets for indexing and structured and unstructured search.
 User and entity behavior analytics (UEBA): Solution for monitoring
behavioral changes in user data to detect anomalous instances when
there are deviations from “normal” patterns.
 Security, orchestration, and automation response (SOAR):
Technology that automates routine, manual analyst actions to increase
operational efficiency throughout the incident response workflow.