20 Years of SIEM: Celebrating My Dubious Anniversary

On Jan 20, 2002, exactly 20 years ago, I joined a “SIM” vendor that shall remain nameless, but is easy to figure out. That windy winter day in northern New Jersey definitely set my security career on a new course.

With this post, I wanted to briefly reflect on this ominous anniversary. Where do we begin?

Let’s start with a sad fact that some of the problems that plagued the SIM/SEM of late 1990s …

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