DISA STIG Compliance Tools
Gain situational awareness of DISA STIG compliance
Using SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM), you can customize your security log monitor to align with DISA STIG compliance requirements, meaning you no longer have to sift through mountains of data to find relevant logs. Using SEM, you can easily visualize changes to devices, systems, user account configuration settings, and modifications to databases.
While data logs that a traditional security information and event management (SIEM) tool can monitor are still readily available in SolarWinds SEM, the SEM interface can also be customized to focus on your specific security interests based on up-to-date DISA STIG compliance requirements. SolarWinds SEM is designed to help provide improved situational awareness of DISA STIG compliance requirements, allowing you to focus on the security issues that matter to your organization.
Automate with rule-based event correlation
SolarWinds SEM is built to allow you to correlate security events within its security log monitor feature, which can enable an overall better understanding of security trends and the motivations behind them in your environment. With its event correlation functionality, you can also observe the trends that may pose a concern specific to DISA STIG security compliance in your network.
Using SolarWinds SEM, you can define how log data is analyzed through correlation, which allows you to leverage built-in active responses to help remediate compliance violations. The built-in alert system in SEM can also allow you to focus on other priorities with its ability to automatically notify you of unusual activity.
Use intuitive and searchable security logs for compliance reporting
Data logs aren’t always the most intuitive. With SolarWinds SEM, you can leverage a user-friendly interface to collapse and expand your collected, stored, and normalized log data to more effectively keep track of your security log data and help generate compliance-ready reports.
SolarWinds SEM offers integrated formatting and data log observer components that can be specified to suit the compliance requirements for a variety of industries. SEM is built with a setting that can specify SIEM monitoring for DISA STIG compliance requirements. Security Event Manager is designed to help demonstrate the requirements involved in a STIG compliance check by collecting relevant security logs and reporting this log history in an audit-ready format.
What is DISA STIG?
Federal agencies are governed by a variety of IT requirements that outline the security practices and data log systems necessary to protect sensitive government information. The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) establishes protocols for national defense IT systems to help ensure the safety of data collection and transmission. DISA regularly releases Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIGs), which provide updated requirements and standards that a Department of Defense (DoD) contractor must follow to gain access to DoD systems.
DISA STIG is not a replacement for other federal security audit regulations, but rather an additive for DoD systems. In addition to DISA STIG, DoD-accessible organizations are required to follow National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) and Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) standards. IT specialists working with federal government systems continually work to ensure that their networks are compliant with the applicable federal security requirements.
What is DISA STIG compliance?
Compliance with DISA STIG requires constant attention to the updated STIGs as well as traditional federal security compliance protocols. Most of these STIGs are related to data collection and transmission, and they require high attention to data log security management. DISA STIG compliance requires that special attention be paid to specific data logs and processes that are at high risk of cybersecurity threats.
What is a STIG compliance check?
A STIG compliance check involves a periodic security data log audit from DoD monitors, which is utilized to establish whether DoD-affiliated systems operators are complying with DISA STIG requirements.
DISA STIGs are hardline security requirements, meaning if any aspect of network log systems do not comply with DISA standards during a STIG compliance audit, the entire network is no longer able to access or work within the DoD system. This means there is a great deal at stake for federal IT specialists who must balance meeting STIG requirements alongside monitoring network security.
Why is DISA STIG compliance important?
DISA STIG compliance helps ensure that DoD-affiliated systems are safe from attack from the outside and from the inside of the system. Very few industries require the level of rigor and constant monitoring that the federal DoD requires from its IT specialists. This is because of the immense consequences that could result from the smallest security vulnerability in a network that has access to the DoD system.
Threats from the inside are often more difficult to detect, and they can be much more severe if left unremedied. A single bad actor with password-protected access to the DoD system can wreak major havoc on national security operations, but an insider threat can rarely be detected by anti-malware programs and firewalls. Privilege threats need to be monitored for by a SIEM system with access to data logs that can keep track of entry and access data for any unusual activity or perceived threats. With the threat of cyberattacks on national defense systems always looming, STIG compliance is a crucial step in helping maintain national security.
What do STIG compliance tools do?
STIG compliance tools focus on security data log management for DISA STIG requirements. These tools are usually closed-source, regularly-updated programs built to enable you to enforce security rules in real time.
While federal IT specialists still need network monitoring skills to diagnose broader issues in network security, having a dedicated STIG compliance tool with graphical analysis and data management customized for STIG compliance can also help support their overall security goals. STIG compliance tools should also have the capacity to log data in a STIG audit-ready format to help streamline compliance management.
How does Security Event Manager support DISA STIG compliance?
SolarWinds Security Event Manager is designed to act as a comprehensive STIG compliance tool that provides security monitoring, DISA STIG-specific audit logs, and real-time security event monitoring. SEM can also be configured to report on DISA STIG compliance standards, with interactive dashboards and color-coded graphics to keep track of security data log analytics.
In addition to STIG-compliant log monitoring, SolarWinds SEM is built to automically respond to potential attacks before they can do harm by ejecting specific USB devices, disabling users, deleting user groups, and even killing specific processes due to suspicious data log activity. With the urgency of protecting national security systems from insider threats, an effective SIEM solution should not only monitor security data logs but be capable of automatically taking action to mitigate cyberattacks. With its DISA STIG compliance focus, SolarWinds SEM is used by major DoD-affiliated agencies for sensitive security needs.
Related Features and Tools
- What is DISA STIG?
- What is DISA STIG compliance?
- What is a STIG compliance check?
- Why is DISA STIG compliance important?
- What do STIG compliance tools do?
- How does Security Event Manager support DISA STIG compliance?
- Related Features and Tools
What is DISA STIG?
Federal agencies are governed by a variety of IT requirements that outline the security practices and data log systems necessary to protect sensitive government information. The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) establishes protocols for national defense IT systems to help ensure the safety of data collection and transmission. DISA regularly releases Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIGs), which provide updated requirements and standards that a Department of Defense (DoD) contractor must follow to gain access to DoD systems.
DISA STIG is not a replacement for other federal security audit regulations, but rather an additive for DoD systems. In addition to DISA STIG, DoD-accessible organizations are required to follow National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) and Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) standards. IT specialists working with federal government systems continually work to ensure that their networks are compliant with the applicable federal security requirements.
Use security audit logs to analyze data from applications and servers
Security Event Manager
- Help minimize the risk of insider threats and security breaches.
- Better understand your security data with visualizations and automated reports.
- Support compliance for regulations like HIPAA, GLBA, PCI DSS, SOX, and NERC CIP.
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