SIEM: A rose by any other name
SLM/LMS, SIM, SEM, SEC, SIEM Following is an extract from the AlienVault whitepaper “ SIEM-for-Beginners ” Although the industry has settled on the term ‘SIEM’ as the catch-all term for this type of security software, it evolved from several different (but complementary) technologies that came before it. • LMS “Log Management System” – a system that collects and stores log files (from operating systems, applications, etc) from multiple hosts and systems into a single location, allowing centralized access to logs instead of accessing them from each system individually. • SLM /SEM “security Log/Event Management” – an LMs, but marketed towards security analysts instead of system administrators. SEM is about highlighting log entries as more significant to security than others. • SIM “security information Management” – an asset Management system, but with features to incorporate security information too. Hosts may have vulnerability re