Intelligent CIO Kuwait Issue 4 | Page 26

FEATURE: FINANCE ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// KFH’S MAIN OBJECTIVES WERE TO BE FULLY COMPLIANT AND HAVE COMPLETE VISIBILITY OF THEIR INFRASTRUCTURE. Security Operation Centre (SOC), Behzadi said: “The ESM correlation engine is one of the best in the industry. “For our threat investigations it’s really helpful to collect data and correlate events in real-time to prioritise and escalate threats that violate the internal platform rules. We were able to optimise the events 26 INTELLIGENTCIO received from the different sources using ADP filtering and aggregation capabilities, resulting in us only managing around 3,000 events per second. Thus, directing our resources in the right way is a key benefit for us.” Behzadi also found the community-driven ArcSight content to be of help: “Through the ArcSight Marketplace and Activate framework, we benefit from security rule- sets, dashboards, and reports developed by Micro Focus SOC experts and the ArcSight Community. ArcSight Activate includes hundreds of use case solutions and ESM packages that we can simply download and integrate into our own ESM environment. It has hugely enriched and enhanced our security operations and response times.” The reporting modules within ArcSight ESM and Logger have also been very useful. The KFH security team have been able to introduce comprehensive dashboard reporting which is used in many parts of the organisation, as well as in audits. Standard and custom, as well as automated and ad-hoc reporting are all part of the security service. www.intelligentcio.com