How the God Particle will Help You Securing Your Assets

Abstract

Since the first computer worms emerged in the late 1980s cyber threats constantly grew in sophistication, impact and scale. However, as cybercrime has become more sophisticated, so has the security against it. Today, reliable and efficient security incident management requires tools highly integrated into the corporate landscape, sophisticated detection mechanisms, highly-trained security specialists and a robust process framework to adequately react on identified threats. This paper shows how approaches taken by the teams finding the Higgs boson at CERN can help solving the problems faced in corporate security incident detection. Cyber security management is a huge and rapidly evolving area of corporate IT and this paper can’t claim to present the complete answers to the challenges. It does, however, identify the main challenges faced when implementing a Security Information and Event Management system (SIEM) and point out feasible approaches to address these challenges.