ManageEngine Log360

With data becoming the new currency of the 21st century, cyber threats and attacks on enterprise databases and networks are becoming increasingly common. Hence, organizations must make special provisions for data leakage protection and monitor their networks very closely to safeguard their cloud data. 

With cyberattacks becoming increasingly sophisticated daily, collecting, managing, and analyzing suspicious activities within an enterprise’s IT infrastructure has become progressively complicated. This is why many organizations use Security Information & Event Management (SIEM) solutions that aggregate and analyze activity from multiple resources across their entire IT infrastructure.

While most SIEM solutions focus primarily on reporting and analysis of security incidents and offer alerts, they seldom help organizations to respond to such threats. In addition, they also lack CASB capabilities which enforce organizational security policies when users access cloud data. Thankfully, there are a few solutions that have addressed the above security concerns, helping many organizations identify threats and vulnerabilities quickly and neutralize them efficiently.

This review will talk about ManageEngine Log360 – a unified SIEM tool that protects your networks against intruders, helps curb cyberattack incidents and identifies any unusual data or file access over the cloud to prevent exfiltration of data in real-time. Empowered by machine learning, this Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response (SOAR) solution simplifies compliance management and proactively hunts for threats using advanced analytics.  

Through this review, we will cover the following points:

• Introduction to Log360
• Key Features of Log360 SIEM
• Our Final Verdict

So let’s get started, shall we?

Introduction to Log360

ManageEngine’s Log360 is an all-encompassing SIEM solution that detects incoming threats to your network and neutralizes them proactively. Log360 ensures that your networks and data are always safeguarded through automated log management, exchange server monitoring, and change audits within your active directory(AD) environment. 

Log360 combines the capabilities of five powerful ManageEngine tools (EventLog Analyzer, AD Audit Plus, M365 Manager Plus, Cloud Security Plus, and Exchange Reporter Plus) to offer you top-notch network visibility. The application also helps generate several useful audit reports and offers real-time alerts for critical events, in addition to offering forensic analysis and threat intelligence.

Log360 comes with integrated Data Leakage Protection (DLP) and CASB capabilities to help you discover, prioritize and respond to security threats across cloud, on-premise, and hybrid networks. In addition, its incident management console helps in threat remediation. The platform combines machine learning-based anomaly detection with threat intelligence and rule-based attack detection to prevent sophisticated cyberattacks. 

Log360 helps you discover logs from multiple sources, including network devices, servers, antivirus systems, and end-user devices. It presents such logs as reports and graphs to better understand potential threats and faster decision-making. It uses log forensics to detect cyberattack patterns and nip them in the bud. Additionally, it helps recognize the pattern of attacks and gauge the impact of such incidents on your organizational IT infrastructure.  

With Log360, you can audit and monitor changes in your Active Directory(AD) in real-time and track suspicious user activities before they culminate into a threat. The platform offers a real-time event correlation engine, user entity behaviour analytics (UEBA), and advanced threat analytics to detect anomalous network activities and correlate them. Log360 also provides rich threat intelligence feeds through its integrations with STIX/TAXII database, Webroot’s BrightCloud and AlienVault OTX.

Log360 helps compile security data from multiple platforms, including exchange servers, SaaS, IPaaS, on-premise network devices, Microsoft 365, and applications in a single integrated console. The application offers log search options and proactively scans for advanced safety threats in your network using its real-time event response system.

Using Log360, you can create detailed incident workflows that determine your automated response when a security incident occurs. This means that in the event of a threat, Log360 automatically performs a set course of actions predetermined by you for faster threat resolution. Furthermore, it also has a compliance management module that helps you adhere to global regulatory mandates like HIPAA, ISO 27001, PCI DSS, GLBA, SOX, etc., through violation alerts and in-built report templates. 

Impressed already? We haven’t discussed the key features yet!

Key Features of Log360 SIEM

Here are a few salient features of the Log360 SIEM solution:

1. Integrated DLP

Log360 helps you in the faster discovery of incidents and threats to preserve essential data and mitigate malicious communication to C&C servers. It identifies unusual access requests to sensitive files or data and identifies vulnerabilities across multiple locations. Additionally, all modifications, renaming, file creation, deletion and access can be regulated using the platform, and you are immediately alerted about suspicious activities and users.

2. Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB)

With Log360, you can regulate access to sensitive cloud data and prevent unauthorized access and data downloads. The platform allows you to discover shadow applications and their requestors and allows you to know which ones have been accessed recently. It also protects your networks against web attacks by restricting access to malicious apps, VPNs, and websites.

3. Real-time Analytics

Log360 allows organizations to collate and analyze their log data across applications and end-user devices and present them graphically. All security events in their AD environments are monitored 24×7. This may include unauthorized login attempts, permission changes across operating units, account lockouts and modifications in group memberships to safeguard your remote workforce.

4. Incident Response Automation

With Log360, you can respond to security crisis situations in a much faster and better way. In the incident of a threat, you are automatically alerted about threats and their magnitude, allowing you to prioritize your response.  The application drastically reduces the mean time to detection and resolution (MTTD & MTTR) by offering effective resolutions.

Log360 offers prebuilt automated response workflows for all threat stages, in-depth insights, and automatic ticket assignment. It also integrates with external ticketing tools for faster response to incidents.

5. Threat & Attack Detection

Log360 helps block malicious users and potential hidden attacks with advanced threat mitigation. It blocks blacklisted IPs, URLs and domains in real-time and offers recommendations for countering cybersecurity threats. It also correlates suspicious activities across organizational networks with its real-time log correlation engine.

In addition to outside threats, the platform also helps you discover internal threats through behaviour analytics and machine learning. Furthermore, it enables you to prioritize threats in an attack chain through the MITRE ATT&CK framework.

6. Compliance Management

Log360 helps you stay compliant with global compliance norms and 150+ ready-to-use reports. It also offers tamper-proof log archive files that help with internal audits and forensic analysis. In addition, you can backtrack security incidents using incident timelines. You can also use the platform to conduct root cause analysis and reconstruct crime scenes.

7. UEBA

Log360 protects you against internal threats by detecting suspicious behaviour from users in your network through machine learning. It allows you to detect the minutest of anomalies using dynamic peer grouping and gain 360-degree visibility into your organization’s security and risk status in real time.

Our Final Verdict

ManageEngine Log360 is a comprehensive data and network protection application that ticks many boxes at once. It helps detect security breaches, identifies suspicious user behaviour, tracks anomalous network activities, and resolves security incidents with automated workflows, making it a must-have for enterprises grappling with security issues regularly.

Log360 is ideal for security professionals, organizations, and compliance managers looking to standardize cybersecurity operations, mitigate attacks, improve compliance and neutralize threats quickly. Considering the above features, we are inclined to give Log360 a ‘Perfect Score’ in our review.