An alert monitoring solution
continuously oversees IT systems, networks, and applications to detect and respond to potential security incidents.
By leveraging advanced analytics and real-time data processing, it identifies anomalies, unauthorized activities, and performance issues, triggering alerts for immediate investigation. These solutions integrate with various data sources, such as logs and network traffic, to provide comprehensive visibility into the security landscape.
Automated alerting minimizes response times, allowing IT teams to address threats quickly and effectively. Additionally, customizable dashboards and reporting tools offer insights into system health and security posture, ensuring proactive management and swift resolution of emerging issues.
A real time system which maintains profiles about individuals, threats, or other entities and in real time processes events and returns alerts about profiles and their risks. Also think of SIEM, a SOC and SOAR etcetera.
Main situation to think about is what a solution or service will bring you when they ask you to take actions. Do you have all relevant details at hand to decide or take appropriate actions?