Setting up your SIEM for success - Pitfalls to preclude and tips to take - Geoff Cairns, Neil Desai - ESW #400

A successful SIEM deployment depends on a lot more than implementing the SIEM correctly. So many other things in your environment have an impact on your chances of a successful SIEM.

• Are the right logs enabled?
• Is your EDR working correctly?
• Would you notice a sudden increase or decrease in events from critical sources?
• What can practitioners do to ensure the success of their SIEM deployment?

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In this interview, we feature some research from Geoff Cairns, an analyst at Forrester Research. This is a preview to the talk he'll be giving at Identiverse 2025 in a few months.

We won't have time to cover all the trends, but there are several here that I'm excited to discuss!

• Deepfake Detection Difficult
• Zero Trust Agentic AI
• Phishing resistant MFA adoption
• Identity Verification
• Machine Identity
• Decentralized Identity
• Post Quantum
• Shared Signals

Segment Resources:

• The Top Trends Shaping Identity And Access Management In 2025 - (Forrester subscription required)

In this week's enterprise security news,

1. Big funding for Island
2. Is DLP finally getting disrupted? By something that works?
3. We learn all about Model Context Protocol servers
4. Integrating SSO and SSH!
5. Do we have too many cybersecurity regulations?
6. Toxic cybersecurity workplaces
7. Napster makes a comeback
8. this week, we’ve got 50% less AI and 50% more co-hosts

All that and more, on this episode of Enterprise Security Weekly.

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Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/esw-400