Abstract

I've asked to be considered for presenting at this year's ArcSight User Conference. Today I sent my abstract over and will hopefully be on the agenda this year to talk about ArcSight Tools.

The incident handlers at [my company] use ArcSight Tools in their investigations as a way to quickly and easily collect additional intelligence from existing data stores in their environment. Come see how, with very little custom code, they have harnessed existing applications and services to quickly gather in-depth information about servers, users, workstations, and external hosts during an investigation. In addition to seeing how [my company] has leveraged ArcSight Tools, learn some of the simple tricks that will help you go back to your office and do the same.

I've blogged about Tools before and this presentation aims to be an expansion of that concept. The truth is, there's lots of great data in your environment that isn't in a log flow somewhere. And while it maybe doesn't belong in your SIM, you want it at your fingertips when investigating a potential incident. It's good to have answers to questions like, "What does this server do?," or "Is this user a local admin?," or "What is this person's boss' phone number?" close at hand.

Anyway, I hope to have more to say about ArcSight Tools soon.