Real-Time Monitoring for Security Operations
Real-Time Monitoring for Security Operations Real-time monitoring means continuously watching systems, networks, and user activity to catch events as they happen. For security operations, this means pulling data from many places—firewalls, endpoints, cloud services—and showing it on dashboards that update every few seconds. The goal is to spot threats before they cause damage. Key data sources include logs, security events, authentication records, and telemetry from devices. A well-designed pipeline ingests, normalizes, and enriches this data so analysts can compare events across sources. A good setup uses a correlation engine to link related alerts and reduce noise, then routes important signals to shared dashboards and incident queues. ...