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Understanding security monitoring fundamentals

Understanding security monitoring fundamentals

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Understanding security monitoring fundamentals

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- [Instructor] You already know that security monitoring plays a crucial role in your organization's cybersecurity strategy. It will help you detect, investigate, and respond to potential threats and incidents in real time. So, understanding the fundamentals of security monitoring can help you build a strong foundation for your organization's security posture, right? So here, we'll discuss the essential components of security monitoring, different best practices, and key considerations of implementing an effective security monitoring strategy. So these are some essential components of security monitoring. First is security information and event management systems, right, SIEM. Basically, that's the system that, of course, is going to collect, aggregate and analyze data from different sources like firewalls and intrusion detection systems, network traffic information like NetFlow, and alerts, and EDR or endpoint detection and response, right? And talking about that, of course, you have…

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