Tag: SIEM

Software vendors are going to kill me for saying this, but you don't have to break the bank with software costs. There are FREE alternatives. Vendors may debate over which are better. But that decision has to be made on a per software basis and per use-case. As long as you have good support, Open Source software can be as good, even better. The code in most cases is well developed and audited by the open source community. I can see many medium tier organizations run these enterprise open source software and save a lot of money in product fees. They will still have to pay for implementation and support costs, but that will be there with all software anyways. Here's a list I compiled of enterprise level security/network tools an organization can benefit from. By no means is this list exhaustive, a comparison or in any order of priority.   Function Free / Open Source Paid LAN Monitoring Tool Network Monitoring (NMS) NMIS NtopNG (nTop Probe for netflow has a...