CompTIA Cloud+ (CV0-004)OperationsMedium
A cloud operations team manages a large fleet of virtual machines across multiple cloud providers. They need a centralized system to collect, normalize, and analyze security events and logs from all these disparate sources to detect threats and ensure compliance. Which solution should they implement?
- AApplication Performance Monitoring (APM) Tool.
- BSecurity Information and Event Management (SIEM) System.
- CDistributed Tracing System.
- DCloud Cost Management Platform.
Show answer & explanationAnswer & explanation
Correct answer: B. Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) System.
A Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) system is specifically designed to collect, normalize, correlate, and analyze security events and logs from various sources across an IT environment. It is crucial for threat detection, incident response, and demonstrating compliance by providing a centralized view of security posture.
Why the other options are wrong
- A. APM tools monitor application performance and availability, not the aggregation and analysis of security logs.
- C. Distributed tracing focuses on tracking requests through microservices for performance, not security event analysis.
- D. A cloud cost management platform is used for tracking and optimizing cloud spending, which is unrelated to security event analysis.
Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
A solution that aggregates and analyzes security event data from various sources (logs, network devices, applications) to provide real-time threat detection, security monitoring, and compliance reporting.
- Centralizes security logging.
- Correlates events to identify threats.
- Supports compliance and incident response.
Memory trick: SIEM: Security Insights Every Minute.