Why is benchmarking SIEM important? According to the National Institute of Standards (NIST), SIEM software is a relatively new type of centralized logging software compared to syslog. Our SANS Log Management Survey1 shows 51 percent of respondents ranked collecting logs as their most critical challenge – and collecting logs is a basic feature a SIEM system can provide. Further, a recent NetworkWorld article2 explains how different SIEM products typically integrate well with selected logging tools, but not with all tools. This is due to the disparity between logging and reporting formats from different systems. There.
