Making the Move from Open Source to Enterprise Agents

Protect your company from the vulnerabilities that come with free or open source cyber security solutions

Open source or free cyber security solutions can be a significant security risk and leave companies open to breaches, attacks, damaging compliance fines, and costly fixes down the line. When considering open source for log management, it is important to understand that an open source solutions provide no way to secure browser access, no encryption, and no guaranteed delivery of the logs.

If your company or your customers are currently using open source cyber security solutions, you can quickly and efficiently help protect yourself or your customers from the risks associated with open source software by making the move to Snare’s Enterprise Agents.

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Eliminate the Risks that Come with Open Source

Why security teams and companies should be replacing free or open source software right now

Open source or free software may seem like a cost savings, but the actual costs far exceed the benefits of this type of solution. Organizations who choose potentially vulnerable, unlicensed, and out-of-date open source software solutions or even components are opening themselves up for tremendous security risks, cyber attacks, and compliance fines.

The bottom line is that open source or free software can cost a lot more in the end.

Compliance risk. Open source software is not GDPR, HIPAA, SOX or PCI DSS compliant
Not secure. Hackers monitor open source communities for bugs or hacking opportunities. Having open source in your tech stack can make you a target for their next attack.
Open source leaves you vulnerable to Ransomware or Malware attacks.
The cost of ‘free’. When it comes to free cyber security software, it’s not a matter of if but when your system is compromised. That choice to go with a free solution can cost millions (even billions) if your company is breached or fined – or both.

Snare Enterprise Agents

Snare Enterprise Agents are the go-to event logging agents for digital security experts around the world. That is why you find them used in conjunction with most SIEM servers, MSSPs, and recommended by consultants around the world. Snare Agents are easy to install and upgrade, provide objective based filtering and greatly enhance the three pillars of information security: Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability.

There are three critical reasons why any serious organization needs to be using Enterprise Agents in their solution no matter the architecture:

Support – If you need a supported security platform, as many compliance standards require, then you need to use the Enterprise Agents. The open source agent is provided to the open source community free of charge and as issued. The Enterprise Agents include maintenance, upgrades, bug fixes and full access to customer support.
Dependability – If your organization needs to know that every log will be captured and forwarded with 100% certainty, then you need to use the Enterprise Agents. The open source agents does not support TCP, caching, custom event logs, UTC or registry audits.
Compliance – The Snare team keeps Snare ahead of compliance standard such as PCI. The open source version has a number of vulnerabilities that will continue to grow overtime as support has been discontinued to ensure the Enterprise Edition is a s strong as it can possibly be.

Protect Your Company or Customers from Compliance Fines and Breaches

For MSSPs or MSPs who are in charge of protecting their customers from damaging breaches or compliance fines, relying on Open Source or free solutions can be the quickest way to open your customers up to vulnerabilities. If you manage security for your own company or for customers, go back to your team or your install base and be a champion by moving from insecure Open Source or free solutions to Snare:

Protect your brand by introducing best-of-breed cyber technology solutions to your customer’s IT infrastructure
Protect your customers from attacks. If there is a breach because you didn’t provide the enterprise log management solution, then your customer is on the hook for that breach and you are responsible for not protecting them.
Prevent costly compliance fines before they cost your customers millions. Open Source Is not GDPR compliant and can lead to an incredibly large, damaging fine.
Maintain and retain current customer base by demonstrating your commitment to their cyber security, while also helping your customers save time and money with Snare.

Creating a Secure Cyber Security Supply Chain

Open Source vs Enterprise

Need to make a case for moving from open source to Snare’s Enterprise Agents?

“I tend to use Snare when customers have a lot of end points, 1,000 or more though particularly over 10K windows end points and they know they want to monitor each and every one of them. I know Snare will report in every time, all the time, even in large scale environments. Snare is well documented and easy to install. Snare also does encryption from the agent to the QRadar host, which is very important for most organizations, though in particular federal customers.”

Peter "S14" Szczepankiewicz, IBM

How Snare Enhances Your Cyber Security Capabilities

File Integrity Monitoring (FIM)
Many regulations require the addition of a checksum to detecting file changes, and file permission changes, such as PCI DSS that require the change detection tools be run at least weekly.

File Activity Monitoring (FAM)
Find out who is doing what to your files and when. Who opens, reads, deletes them, and are they supposed to? A critical component to most compliance policies such as PCI DSS, HIPAA, FISMA, ISO27001, NIST, etc.

Multi Destination
Unlimited destinations for logs being sent with different ports, protocols, and formats for each destination. Get the right data, to the right people, at the right time.

Registry Incident Monitoring (RIM)
Similar to FIM, performing a checksum and tracking the permission changes on the registry is important for identifying changes to key parts of the windows configuration and applications.

Registry Activity Monitoring (RAM)
Most applications maintain their configuration in the registry on Windows platforms. Being able to detect unauthorized changes to an application from changing key registry values is an important forensic tool in determining if the change resulted in unauthorized application activity.

Enterprise Grade
Heartbeats, self-audit, audit policy, data enrichment, data masking, and EPS controls. Windows Agents Veracode Verified. No Java or .NET required.

Database Activity Monitoring
Effectively monitor SQL activity within a single database or an entire instance that covers multiple databases.

USB Drives
Tracking removable media and its usage on systems is important for data exfiltration and potential sources of malware and other malicious activity. It is important to track the device activity and if the media was something like a thumb drive or Rubber Ducky device that can be used to steal data or write malware/exploit at 3,000 characters a second and then execute it on the system as the user that is logged-in on the system.

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Reduce Noise & Spend Time on Intelligence

Noise can diminish the investment in your cybersecurity platform by obscuring the threat and masking the intruder. Snare ensures that the right data gets to the right place at the right time, so customers spend more time on intelligence and less time on sifting through a noisy infrastructure, reducing MTTD.

Snare can filter and truncate the Windows verbose help text, getting rid of up to 87% of the noise
Snare can set your audit policy to only generate the events you need
Snare can eliminate sending redundant event logs
Snare reduces the hardware and network infrastructure needed to scale for enterprises
Snare, for example, can direct the needed data to your MSSP, while concurrently storing all events for forensics

Database Activity Monitoring (DAM)

Snare’s Database Activity Monitoring (DAM) helps identify and report on anomalous database activity behavior, with minimal impact on user operations and productivity. Snare’s specialized Microsoft SQL (MS SQL) agent allows customers to effectively monitor SQL activity within a single database or an entire instance that covers multiple databases. Specific settings can be used to collect information on a specific database, tables with sensitive data, or specific commands run in the database. This reduces the noise of general monitoring of all user activity on the SQL environment.

The Snare MS SQL agent works on all current versions of SQL server on Windows platforms, including complex enterprise environments.

Let security monitor the DBA to identify and alert on insider threats and/or external threat actors
Bring SQL into scope by focusing on intelligence vs all-or-nothing SQL logging options
Mask sensitive data like PCI and other PII

Easily Deploy Snare in Multiple SIEM Environments

While we have been an industry founder and thought leader, Snare is recognized as being easy, fast, scalable and reliable. Snare provides the following technology enabled benefits to our partners and joint customers:

Snare can be deployed with every SIEM in several ways:

Simple Log Transportation
Flat Deployment
Branch Collection & Reflection
Enterprise / Multi-Policy

Simple Log Transportation

Flat Deployment

Branch Collection & Reflection

Enterprise / Multi-Policy

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Enterprise Scalability with Snare

Snare is a reliable, highly scalable, long-term log storage solution for high volume enterprise environments. With Snare, you send the right data to the right people at the right time – in real time.

Scale and handle high traffic, high volume sites that have 100,000+ agents collecting terabytes of data or more per day
Long-term storage to ensure compliance and forensics options
All logs are collected and parsed using Snare Central to feed any SIEM in a standardized format – while using tiered filtering as needed
Easily manage policies and agents en masse

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Migrate from any SIEM

A core tenet of the Snare design philosophy is to play well with others. Snare is installed around the world, on every continent, in most every country, on the ground, under the sea and in the air. We work with most every MSSP and SIEM on the market as well as home grown systems. Snare is the de facto logging platform to the point that the enriched Snare log format is a standard used by many Centralized Logging Platforms.

The Log Management & Collection Platform of Choice for MSSPs

Snare pairs with virtually every SIEM, which means that we can support your customers in any environment.

Snare Central 8.3 features powerful new ad hoc event search capabilities, as well as an upgraded interface for better UX and data visualization. The latest release promises to keep with Snare’s mantra of reducing customer risk while saving customers time and money.

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Making the Move from Open Source to Enterprise Agents

Snare is Trusted by 4,000+ Customers Worldwide

Eliminate the Risks that Come with Open Source

Snare Enterprise Agents

Protect Your Company or Customers from Compliance Fines and Breaches

Open Source vs Enterprise

How Snare Enhances Your Cyber Security Capabilities

Reduce Noise & Spend Time on Intelligence

Database Activity Monitoring (DAM)

Easily Deploy Snare in Multiple SIEM Environments

Enterprise Scalability with Snare

Migrate from any SIEM

The Log Management & Collection Platform of Choice for MSSPs

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