The effectiveness of network security monitoring depends greatly on a regular collection, analysis and correlation of security data from across the on-premises and cloud environments. In fact, that is the only way you can identify intrusions and threats in a timely manner. Furthermore, intrusion detection systems cannot get the job done on their own, alone. For complete monitoring and protection of your network, it is important that you get a unified view of:
- Everything that is connected to your infrastructure
- Potentially exploitable vulnerable systems
- Regular updates related to threat intelligence
- Security incidents, along with the correlated event data
- Aggregated logs and events from your on-premises, cloud and hybrid environments
- Activity and threats with known malicious hosts