Select tools that support manual and automated searches including criteria based alerts

Organization should use tools that support both manual and automated searches, including criteria-based searches. The tool should be able to automatically collate data from different sources to more easily determine whether an incident is genuine, as well as its scope and nature.

These operations and processes can be implemented with SIEM (Security information and event management). SIEM solutions use analytics tools, technology and algorithms (e.g., newer SIEM solutions employ applied machine learning) to help detect unknown threats and abnormalities in the security-relevant data. Also SIEM solutions allow organizations to modify already existing (which usually come pre-configured) and add criteria-based alerts to match known threats. These things will help detect threats earlier.

Organization's data systems and network must be monitored to detect abnormal use. When anomalities are detected, the organization must take the necessary measures to assess the possibility of security incident.

The monitoring should utilize tools that enable real-time or regular monitoring, taking into account the organization's requirements. Monitoring practices should be able to manage large amounts of data, adapt to changing threat environment, and send alerts immediately when necessary.

Inclusion of the following sources in the monitoring system should be considered:

• outbound and inbound network and data system traffic

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• access to critical data systems, servers, network devices and the monitoring system itself
• critical system and network configuration files
• logs from security tools (e.g. antivirus, IDS, IPS, network filters, firewalls)

Organization must also establish procedures for identifying and correcting "false positive" results, including tuning monitoring software for more accurate anomaly detection.

System logs often contain a wealth of information, much of which is irrelevant to security monitoring. In order to identify events relevant to security monitoring, consideration should be given to automatically copying appropriate message types to another log or to using appropriate utilities or audit tools to review and resolve files.