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• The central storage satifies the long term event retention requirements for security standard and regulatory compliance 3. Correlate events from disparate systems • The capability of categorization and normalization of events, which are stored in centralized pool, allows events from disparated sources be correlated effectively • The event correlation provides the solution to quickly identify a single security event out of millions of event entries
instantly without some special software tools. In addition, there is no easy way to provide a central dashboard showing the security and service status.
4. Provide a single security and service Dashboard • Provide a single dashboard for showing overall status of service, security level and standard compliance
The SIEM solution described in this article can help solve the above limitation in traditional event processing. With the use of multiple collectors, event categorization, event normalization and correlation of events from disparate system, the SIEM can effectively and quickly identify critical event or security incident. In addition, the SIEM can provide a single dashboard to display the security alarm as well as service and standard compliance status. All these benefits will make a better IT service and security management.
5. Conclusion Modern IT services are complicated to manage due to involvement of multiple disparate components either simultaneously or in high speed. As a result, the monitoring of the health, security and service status of an IT service requires the processing of many different event entries stored in different formats and in disparate systems. Critical security events may not be detected
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CityU Received 2012 FutureGov Awards Office of the CIO The 2012 FutureGov Award is the sixth annual Asia Pacific award for government transformation – celebrating the successes of the region’s most forward-looking government organizations, including health care and higher education. According to FutureGov, the awards are “the international benchmark by which public sector innovation is judged – uniquely celebrating agency and project success.” This year, the City University of Hong Kong received the “2012 FutureGov Award” for the top “Digital Inclusion” project in this region. Our “University-
The 2012 FutureGov Award for Digital Inclusion went to the City University of Hong Kong.
wide Mobile Web Project” involved revamping CityU’s entire public web, spanning over a hundred individual websites and over half a million web pages, to be Web accessible for the disabled, including the blind, through assistive devices such as screen readers and Braille devices. This tremendous effort was driven by special technology innovations created at CityU that streamlined the conversion process making it very manageable and effective. This project would not have been possible without the hard work and dedication of close to two hundred IT and non-IT staff across all CityU departments and units. In addition, CityU was also shortlisted for the “Education Organization of the Year” for its mobile-learning efforts, as well as the “Wireless Government” award for making its web pages mobile-friendly. The FutureGov awards were judged by a panel of peers, including senior officials and technologists drawn from within and
Dr. Andy Chun receiving the 2012 FutureGov Award on behalf of the City University of Hong Kong.
beyond the Asia Pacific region. In total there were over 650 nominations, and 93 finalists, competing for the 23 award categories. This year, there were only 2 award winners from the Greater China region. Besides CityU, the Hong Kong Police received the “North Asia Public Sector Organization of the Year” award. On behalf of the University, Dr Andy Chun, CIO for CityU, received the 2012 FutureGov Award for Digital Inclusion from Mr James Smith, Managing Editor of FutureGov Magazine at a gala award celebration dinner in Chiang Mai, Thailand. Dr. Andy Chun, commented: “The FutureGov Award is a special recognition by our fellow peers in the Asia Pacific region. Unlike other awards, this is dedicated purely to the public sector. Project benefits are not measured in dollar amounts but value it brings to citizens. The award once again reinforces CityU’s IT leadership in this region.”
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