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Published inSep 2023
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Shobhit Mehta
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Shobhit Mehta

Shobhit Mehta is the Security and Compliance Director at Headspace, an on-demand mental health company in San Francisco, CA. Previously, he worked in different facets of security and assurance with HSBC, Deutsche Bank, Credit Suisse, PayPal, and Fidelity Investments. He also works with ISACA to develop exam questions for CISA, CISM, and CGEIT, served as the technical reviewer for the CGEIT and CISA review manuals, and is a published author for the COBIT 5 journal. He completed his MS in cybersecurity at Northeastern University, Boston, and holds CRISC, CISM, CISA, CGEIT, CISSP, and CCSP certifications. In his spare time, he likes to explore the inclined trails of the Bay Area, complete ultramarathons, and blog on GRCMusings.
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Correlating events and incidents

One of the major problems for any organization is the huge number of event alerts they receive. Over a period of time, it becomes difficult for the organization to maintain and correlate all the alerts.

IT event correlation automates the process of analyzing IT events and identifying relationships between them to detect problems and uncover their root cause. There are some event correlation tools such as AlertLogic, Splunk, and others that can help organizations monitor their systems and applications more effectively. This also helps to reduce false positives and improve uptime and performance.

IT infrastructures generate a huge amount of data in various formats. This could be from multiple sources such as servers, databases, virtual machines, mobile devices, operating systems, web applications, IoT devices, and other network components. An event for this kind of tool can be any piece of data that provides insight about a state change in that...

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ISACA Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC®) Exam Guide
Published in: Sep 2023Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781803236902

Author (1)

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Shobhit Mehta

Shobhit Mehta is the Security and Compliance Director at Headspace, an on-demand mental health company in San Francisco, CA. Previously, he worked in different facets of security and assurance with HSBC, Deutsche Bank, Credit Suisse, PayPal, and Fidelity Investments. He also works with ISACA to develop exam questions for CISA, CISM, and CGEIT, served as the technical reviewer for the CGEIT and CISA review manuals, and is a published author for the COBIT 5 journal. He completed his MS in cybersecurity at Northeastern University, Boston, and holds CRISC, CISM, CISA, CGEIT, CISSP, and CCSP certifications. In his spare time, he likes to explore the inclined trails of the Bay Area, complete ultramarathons, and blog on GRCMusings.
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