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Organizations are spending significant time and energy scrutinizing their security and event logs to track which systems have been accessed, by whom, what activity took place and whether it was appropriate. They are increasingly looking towards data-driven automation to help ease the burden.

IT audits, standards and regulatory requirements are now a part of most enterprises' day-to-day responsibilities. As part of that burden, organizations are spending significant time and energy scrutinizing their security and event logs to track which systems have been accessed, by whom, what activity took place and whether it was appropriate.

Organizations are increasingly looking towards data-driven automation to help ease the burden. As a result, the security information and event management (SIEM) category has taken shape and provided focused solutions to the problem.

As the category evolved, increasingly stringent government regulations and industry standards drove the market to broaden its use of the technology to encompass the full spectrum of people, processes and technology.

The result has been a market divergence, with one path focused on threat management and the other on compliance initiatives. The latter requires placing event activity within the context of an identity, highlighting the inevitable convergence with identity and access management solutions. This paper focuses on the convergence of the technologies and shows how this convergence provides customers with better solutions to address pressing business issues.