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The Need For Security Analytics Tools For Enterprises

2016-08-08by Priti Shetti

Despite of spending high on digital information security, organizations still remain exposed to external threats. However, datacenter servers are helping businesses to integrate new, advanced security tools in order to counter the growing number of security threats. Smaller companies are highly prone to breaches and thus, they need to strengthen their security aspects by implementing potential defenses and endpoint protections.

On the other hand, large and midsize enterprises require installing security analysis tools, which lets them impend the attacks before it's being launched. In addition, it also gives them a comprehensive overview of its infrastructure that helps in analyzing the threats and reacting on real-time basis to avoid the risks.

Why businesses need security analysis tools?

"Security analytics platforms endeavor to bring situational awareness to security events by gathering and analyzing a broader set of data, such that the events that pose the greatest harm to an organization are found and prioritized with greater accuracy. “said Eric Ahlm, research director at Gartner. Gartner claims that security analytics could act as a key to recognizing breach.

Data center providers certainly deliver ample of security technologies, with firewalls and other techniques in place to shield businesses from attacks. Organization believes that the cloud servers are the safest place to maintain all the digital data, but every online source is vulnerable. As the cyber world is turning vigorous, enterprises must adopt newer approaches to fight the risks. One of the major facet to this is detecting the attacks that are coming their way, which in itself is a challenging task. Identifying the attacks is difficult because it happens real quickly. Another reason is that it often gets dispersed across distinct endpoints, which makes it tough to analyze the breach. Most organizations have reported that they couldn't identify exactly what data was compromised. If enterprises ensure to speed up the process of threat detection, they could do some great benefits for their businesses.

That's where analytics tools prove beneficial. This mechanism altogether help organizations perform better analysis, detect the attack, determine how and which systems were compromised and find out if the attack still lies underneath. The tool is a broad concept that comes along with multiple features that works to contend the requirements of security experts that includes:

  • constant administration,
  • threat and incident identification,
  • data loss reporting

How to deploy the tool?

The tools are deployed as virtual appliance, software, or hardware appliance. Hardware appliance is the ideal choice for businesses with high traffic network, as it provides the flexibility to customize the hardware and software configurations to suit the demands of required analytics. While the software and virtual appliance is more suitable when the tool is deployed and maintained on pre-installed company hardware with the capability to handle the increase in server load.

Conclusion:

One thing to consider is that this tool doesn’t replace any existing security application, as it designed to detect threats and act as quick as possible to prevent the attack from causing serious issues. With the help of this tool, companies can analyze, examine, control the attack and keep its business safe.

 

About Web Werks:

Web Werks is an India-based TIER IV Data Center Service Provider with 5 carrier neutral data centers in India and USA. Started in 1996, Web Werks has served several Fortune 500 companies with successful projects in the areas of Web Hosting, VPS Hosting, Colocation Services, Dedicated Hosting, Cloud Platform and Disaster Recovery Services.

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