Security information-management (SIM) products (also referred to as Security Event Management wares) automate the manual process of collecting security-specific event-log data from file systems, security appliances and other network devices. The latter include firewalls, proxy servers, intrusion-detection systems, intrusion-prevention systems, routers and switches, and antispam, antivirus and antispyware software.
SIM has data-aggregation and network event-correlation features similar to those found in network management software.
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