Exploring multi-cloud monitoring suites
Companies have a wide variety of choices when they're looking for a SIEM solution. In the next sections, some popular solutions are discussed.
Exploring SIEM solutions from Splunk, LogRythm, and Rapid7
Each year, market analyst Gartner publishes a list of leading solutions in different IT domains. For a number of years, Splunk, LogRythm, and Rapid7 have been named as leading products for SIEM by Gartner. These solutions can work with all major cloud providers using REST APIs. REST stands for REpresentational State Transfer.
A REST API is a programmable interface that connects to the service in the cloud and enables that data from that service to be captured and sent to an application. In this case, the SIEM suite uses an API to get security data such as alerts from the cloud and transfers it to the dashboard of the SIEM solution. Splunk, LogRythm, and Rapid7 have APIs for Azure and AWS. Splunk and LogRythm integrate with Azure...
