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Date Published
Author
Mallory Mooney
Word count
1972
Language
English
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None

Summary

In this post, Datadog provides visibility into an organization's security posture across three key areas: response and remediation, incidents and threats, and governance, compliance, and preparedness. The platform enables organizations to prioritize the metrics, goals, and events that matter most by providing capabilities for log-based threat detection, incident management and response, and compliance monitoring. Datadog tracks mean time to detect (MTTD), mean time to acknowledge (MTTA), and mean time to resolve (MTTR) metrics to assess cloud SIEM effectiveness. The platform also provides built-in compliance reports and security baselines to help organizations identify gaps in their environment and prioritize improvements. Additionally, Datadog's Incident Management feature enables organizations to easily declare, investigate, and resolve security incidents, while the Scorecards feature simplifies monitoring preparedness across services and resources. By using these features, organizations can strengthen their security posture, minimize intrusion attempts, inform Cloud SIEM detection signals, reduce mean time to detect and resolve, and create reasonable SLOs.