Affordable SIM/ SEM/ SIEM?

I know, I know, no one wants to hear about the bad economy, but many of our IT brethren are facing staff reductions and limited budgets. At the same time, security is becoming a greater concern. Employees leaving organizations could be taking secure/ private data with them, fraud and other hacks are on the rise.
Even [...]

Securing Large Federal Agencies—Customers Speak at the SANS Log Management Summit, April 6-7

Both Chris Mishaga, Senior Security Engineer for L-3 Communications, and Sean Wilkerson, Senior Security Engineer for Aplura, have implemented countless SIEMs, SIMs and SEMs for large federal agencies. But when they started using Splunk to meet the log centralization component of FISMA compliance, they thought maybe there was a way to bring Splunk into the [...]