How can unified event management help security and IT ops team achieve their common goals?
Security event integration with an overall consolidated event management system is one of the more challenging and also more valuable areas of consideration. This is partly because rather than being a “component-defined” part of the infrastructure or SW environment, security is pervasively associated with all domains and all disciplines. It is something like the “phantom” in event management-a more logical than tangible entity. But as such, defining polices for integration and reconciliation are more complex and overall less evolved. Of course security has its own well established history in event management, in particular with SIEM—but once again this evolved as a way of consolidating security-related event issues, rather than being a more holistic approach to integrating security events with performance and change related events. And so to a large degree this challenge still remains unanswered by the industry as a whole. Is OMi a replacement for OM? No. OMi is a separate product that
