What Is a SIEM and Why Does It Matter: Dope.Security Launches New SIEM Integrations

A SIEM (Security Information and Event Management) solution is like an air traffic control tower for your cybersecurity operations. It collects and analyzes security logs, alerts, and events from multiple sources—servers, applications, endpoints, and more—to give you real-time visibility into potential threats. By correlating data across your entire infrastructure, SIEMs help organizations rapidly detect suspicious activities, meet compliance requirements, and respond to incidents before they escalate.

Key Benefits of a SIEM

1. Real-Time Threat Detection: Traditional security tools often operate in silos, making it difficult to see the full picture of suspicious activity. A SIEM correlates logs from different sources—like your endpoints, web gateways, and cloud apps—so you can spot patterns that might indicate an imminent attack. By consolidating all security events in a single dashboard, a SIEM empowers security teams to quickly identify and address threats before they escalate.
   
   
2. Centralized Visibility & Compliance: From PCI-DSS and HIPAA to GDPR and beyond, staying compliant is a juggling act. A SIEM simplifies the process by automatically archiving logs and generating audits, proving that your organization has the right controls in place. Plus, the centralized view means you won’t need to hop between multiple consoles or data sources to piece together a compliance report.
   
   
3. Efficient Incident Response: When every second counts, an integrated SIEM can be the difference between a minor incident and a major breach. Instead of manually searching through disparate tools, security analysts can jump into a single pane of glass to investigate alerts, trace suspicious IPs, and respond to incidents. Automation features—like correlation rules and playbooks—further streamline incident handling, so your team can focus on swift, decisive action.
   
   
4. Proactive Security Posture: Beyond detecting active threats, a SIEM helps you identify weaknesses in your defenses. Regularly reviewing logs and events uncovers trends like repeated login failures or abnormal file transfers. These insights guide proactive measures, from reconfiguring network access to updating software patches before vulnerabilities are exploited.

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At dope.security, we believe in a proactive, frictionless approach to protecting your environment. That’s why dope.security has now added a new form of SIEM Integration. Until now we only offered customers an AWS S3 bucket that we could integrate with, but now that has been updated to also allow for “HTTP Integration”. Customers will now see a drop down menu where they can select their SIEM type and proceed with the simple integration. Below is a list of SIEMs we now support:

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Crowdstrike and dope.security

• To configure Crowdstrike, create a HEC Connector within your Crowdstrike console. First login to your Crowdstrike console ➔ Data Onboarding, add a HEC Connector and add the dopesecurity-swg parser. Once this is saved take you are provided with an API key and API URL
• In the dope.console, navigate to Settings ➔ SIEM ➔ SIEM Integration Settings ➔ HTTP. From here select "Crowdstrike" as the SIEM type and update the API Token and the API URL token in the following SIEM HTTP settings page and sync.

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Splunk and dope.security

• To successfully configure Splunk, you must have the HTTP Event Collector (HEC) URI and the token. The steps to obtain these can be found on Splunk’s Documentation: Set up and use HTTP Event Collector in Splunk Web
• In the dope.console navigate to Settings ➔ SIEM ➔ SIEM Integration Settings ➔ HTTP. From here select "Splunk" as the SIEM type and update the HEC URI and the HEC token in the following SIEM HTTP settings page of the dope.console and sync.

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Taegis and dope.security

• To configure Taegis successfully, you must have the Taegis integration URL and the integration key. The steps to obtain these can be found on Taegis’s Documentation: Configure HTTP Ingest
• In the dope.console navigate to Settings ➔ SIEM ➔ SIEM Integration Settings ➔ HTTP. From here select “Taegis” as the SIEM type and update the integration URL and the integration key and sync

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MS Sentinel and dope.security

• To integrate with Microsoft Sentinel using HTTP, you'll need to utilize the Azure Monitor Logs Ingestion API. The steps to configure this can be found in Azure Monitor's Documentation: Logs Ingestion API in Azure Monitor
• Ensure the following are set up in Azure:
  
  • Microsoft Entra Application (Client ID, Tenant ID, Client Secret)
  • Data Collection Endpoint (DCE)
  • Custom Log Analytics Table
  • Data Collection Rule (DCR)
  • Assign your Microsoft Entra Application the Monitoring Metrics Publisher role on your DCR.
• In the dope.console navigate to Settings ➔ SIEM ➔ SIEM Integration Settings ➔ HTTP. From here select “MS Sentinel” as the SIEM type. Provide all the necessary information in the form below.

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QRadar and dope.security

• To configure QRadar, you must have the QRadar integration URL and the integration key. The steps to obtain these can be found in IBM's QRadar Security Intelligence Platform Documentation: HTTP Receiver protocol configuration options.
• In the dope.console navigate to Settings ➔ SIEM ➔ SIEM Integration Settings ➔ HTTP. From here select “QRadar” as the SIEM type and update the integration URL and the integration key and sync.

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By pairing a robust SIEM with dope.security’s endpoint-based secure web gateway, customers gain a bird’s-eye view of potential risks and a streamlined approach to incident response.

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