From csoonline.com
A single SIEM serves three UK councils, allowing for solution consolidation that saves costs while improving efficiency and regulatory compliance.
Local governments can find cybersecurity challenging. Without the scale and resources of central government, they can often be left vulnerable to attackers. In recent years towns and cities across the U.S. and Europe have been hit by attacks such as ransomware that have brought services down.
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While it can provide a level of scale and technical sophistication harder to achieve alone, outsourcing can be costly and introduce a new risk vector into your organization, as recently seen with the attack on Wipro and other providers that lead to some customers being targeted for gift card scams.
Via a partnership, three UK councils recently standardized on one security information and event management (SIEM) tool to lower costs, improve efficiency and compliance efforts, and foster collaboration among the three authorities.