Welcome to week 3

Welcome back! Previously, we discussed security frameworks, controls, and design principles, and how security professionals apply these to security audits.

In this section, we'll continue to explore security tools and how they can help you keep organizations and the people they serve safe. Security professionals often use a variety of tools to address specific security challenges, such as collecting security data, detecting and analyzing threats, or automating tasks. Security tools help organizations achieve a more comprehensive security posture.

We'll begin by covering different types of logs, what they track, and how they're used.

Then we'll explore security information and event management, otherwise known as SIEM, dashboards. Finally, we'll discuss some common SIEM tools used in the security industry. Let's get started!