Castra Consulting Has Formally Announced Managed SIEM or mSIEM as an Addition to Their Current Professional Services Lineup

The SIEM market is constantly evolving and to stay on top of the changing threat There is a need for qualified, dedicated resources tuning and monitoring SIEM output for key actionable results.

Castra Consulting Has Formally Announced Managed SIEM or mSIEM as an Addition to Their Current Professional Services Lineup
Chapel Hill, NC, July 23, 2014 --(PR.com)-- Castra Consulting has announced Managed SIEM or mSIEM services.

Castra helps clients get the most of their investment. As threats evolve weekly and new scenarios arise, Castra Consulting is able to ensure client SIEM platforms are not only working well, but returning actionable alerts and relevant reports.

A sample description of what Castra Consulting accomplishes with mSIEM:

Health monitoring:

* All hardware stats, All event flow rates, All real-time

* 24x7 health alerts for platform faults with immediate notification

* Tailored security alerting and presentation

* Correlation and escalation tuning in-platform adjusted upon changing device types and rates

* Re-weighting of assets and network zones due to ever changing customer environment

* Critical alerts forwarded to customer's incident ticketing platform (SNMP, email, syslog, custom hook)

Weekly client web meeting with report of top issues:

* Change recommendations for the application

* Recommendations for enhanced client usability

Proactive review of platform and alarming:

* Bottlenecks / latency of events or alert generation

* Future considerations, new correlations, scaling, trending

* Advanced analytics surrounding events and alarm histories

Relevant reports to address security needs:

* Delivered to meet client contexts changed to address business verticals

* Reviewed weekly with the client for efficacy

Typical Items addressed:

* Is an alert the client requested working?

* Tune data feeds and alerts to highlight emerging security threats

* Add Threat Feeds as needed

Leverage operational experience to derive actionable alerts and reduce False Positives:

* Reduce noise from data feeds

* Adjust weights for threats against customer's critical/operational infrastructure

* Best practices from proven operational methodologies
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Casta Consulting
Grant Leonard
919-949-4002
http://castraconsulting.com
info@castraconsulting.com
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