Multi-Tenant SIEM Deployment Using JSON Solution Bundles
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing SIEM tools are complex, resource-intensive, and difficult to deploy across multiple tenants, leading to high costs and inefficiencies, as they lack the ability to leverage synergies between client deployments.
Innovation Solution
An automated, 'as-a-service' approach using a JSON-based solution bundle to generate and deploy reusable SIEM artifacts, such as resource groups, log analytics workspaces, and alert rules, with a visual interface for easy deployment and management across multiple tenants.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If traditional SIEM tools are deployed across multiple tenants, then security coverage is provided, but deployment complexity and resource consumption increase significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The SIEM solution is segmented into reusable artifacts (resource groups, workspaces, alert rules, playbooks) that can be independently deployed to different tenants. This allows the system to provide comprehensive security coverage while reducing deployment complexity through modular, standardized components that can be replicated across multiple tenants without manual reconfiguration.
Solution Approach 2:
The SIEM platform implements universal deployment templates and artifacts that can be applied across multiple tenants with different requirements. The same artifact library serves multiple functions and tenant types, enabling standardized deployment while maintaining customized security coverage for each tenant through parameterization and configuration rather than complete reconfiguration.
2Adaptability or versatility
If manual deployment of SIEM tools is performed for each tenant, then customization is possible, but time consumption and operational efficiency decrease
Solution Approach 1:
SIEM artifacts, templates, and configurations are pre-built and prepared in advance as reusable components. These pre-configured artifacts can be rapidly deployed to tenants through automated processes, eliminating the need for manual deployment while still allowing customization through parameterization. This preliminary preparation enables both efficiency and adaptability.
Solution Approach 2:
The system uses parameterized templates where tenant-specific values are substituted into standardized artifact structures. This allows customization for each tenant through parameter changes rather than creating unique deployments from scratch, maintaining deployment efficiency while achieving necessary customization for different tenant requirements.
3Reliability
If comprehensive SIEM artifacts are deployed to each tenant, then security functionality is complete, but resource consumption and cost increase
Solution Approach 1:
Common SIEM artifacts, templates, and configurations are merged into a shared library that can be reused across multiple tenants. Instead of deploying complete, redundant SIEM installations to each tenant, the system combines and reuses common components while only deploying tenant-specific customizations, thereby reducing overall resource consumption while maintaining complete security functionality.
Solution Approach 2:
The system recovers and reuses common SIEM artifacts across tenant deployments rather than creating new instances for each tenant. General-purpose components like resource groups, workspaces, and alert rules are discarded from individual tenant deployments and recovered into the shared artifact library for reuse, reducing redundant resource consumption while preserving full security functionality.
4Productivity
If standardized templates are used for SIEM deployment, then deployment speed increases, but adaptability to specific tenant needs decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The deployment system implements dynamic artifact selection and parameterization where standardized templates can be automatically adapted to specific tenant needs. The system dynamically adjusts which artifacts are deployed and with what parameters based on tenant profiles, requirements, and environment, enabling both rapid standardized deployment and necessary customization without manual intervention.
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AI summary
A method of enhancing network security across a plurality of tenants is disclosed herein. The method can include: providing a Security Information, and Event Management (SIEM) management application configured to be hosted by a SIEM provider server communicably coupled to a tenant server; coupling, via a data connector, the SIEM management application to a log source hosted by the tenant server, wherein the data connector is configured the control a flow of data to and from the log source; generating, via the SIEM management application, a JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) based solution bundle for the log source; visually displaying, via a user interface of the SIEM management application, a proposed SIEM protocol for the tenant server based, at least in part, on the JSON-based solution bundle; and deploying, via the SIEM management application, the proposed SIEM protocol from the SIEM provider server to the tenant server.