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Status Future consideration
Workspace PowerVC
Created by Guest
Created on Mar 10, 2021

RELATED IDEAS

Add SIEM support to PowerVC GUI

We run PowerVC in an environment where security is key. To facilitate this, we are running a SIEM appliance; this is a central monitoring device, setup to receive information from all kinds of systems, to collect security-relevant data. Reports from SIEM can be helpful in obtaining certification for certain security-certifications.

Using a SIEM solution, a customer can centrally log succeeded and failed login attempts, security-related events etc. You can even apply AI and warn about intrusions or flag an alert if something bad is happening.

In order to allow SIEM to work, regardless of the manufacturer of the appliance, you need to either be able to install an agent, OR have a way to forward security-relevant data by means of the Unix syslog facility to the SIEM server.

We can forwarded security-related events from the Linux operating system to SIEM, but according to IBM there is no setup possible to allow PowerVC to send events generated by using the GUI to SIEM.
So logins (failed or succeeded), partition deletions, migrations, resizing etc. cannot be sent to SIEM and logged there.

We would like a future release of PowerVC to include an option to send that type of data, using the Unix syslog facility to a SIEM server.

Idea priority Medium

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