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Top ArcSight Interview Questions and Answers

Written by Sachin | Jul 4, 2022 3:11:37 PM

Q1. What is ArcSight ESM?

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ArcSight ESM is a market-leading solution for collecting, correlating, and reporting on security event information. ArcSight ESM helps you with: Correlate data from any source in real-time to detect incidents before they become a breach.

Q2. What is ArcSight security?

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ArcSight is a security management solution designed to track, and compliance policy guidelines components analyze a company product's data insights. It's a portfolio that can operate with various products to address security issues and boost productivity.

Q3. What are the key features of the ArcSight Enterprise Security Manager?

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ArcSight Enterprise Security Manager (ESM) includes ingestion and interpretation of logs, connection to threat intelligence feeds, real-time correlation and analytics, security alerting, data presentation through user interface dashboards and reporting, compliance reporting and support.

Q4. What are the components of ArcSight?

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  • ArcSight user analytics. 
  • ArcSight DMA. 
  • ArcSight App analytics.

Q5. What is SIEM and how does SIEM work?

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Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) is a software solution that aggregates and analyzes activity from many different resources across your entire IT infrastructure.

SIEM collects security data from network devices, servers, domain controllers, and more. SIEM stores, normalizes, aggregates, and applies analytics to that data to discover trends, detect threats, and enable organizations to investigate any alerts.

SIEM provides two primary capabilities to an Incident Response team:

  • Reporting and forensics about security incidents
  • Alerts based on analytics that match a certain rule set, indicating a security issue

Q6. What is ArcSight logger?

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ArcSight Logger is a comprehensive log man- agement solution that eases compliance bur- dens and enables faster forensic investigation for security professionals, by unifying and stor- ing machine data logs from across their orga- nizations, and by facilitating rapid search and reporting on that data.

Q7. What does ArcSight Connector mean?

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ArcSight Connectors automate the process of collecting and managing logs from any device and in any format through normalization and categorization of logs into a unified format known as Common Event Format (CEF), which is now an industry standard for log format.

Q8. Why do organizations need Security Information and Event Management systems?

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Most of the small companies don't have enough manpower to make sure that their security process is intact. But they won't be able to be proactive and warn the team that there might be a possible threat attack, this is because they don't have any automatic mechanism which triggers a threat attack. So to solve the real-time issue and also make sure the security checks are monitored and analyzed, we have a Security Information and Event Management system. Out of this system is ArcSight SEM. So basically all the machine log data is analyzed and understands the patterns of normal behavior vs abnormal behavior.  Thus making it a perfect tool where it can understand the security logs so far and based on the analysis can trigger some information that might prevent a bigger threat to the entire organization.

Q9. How does the ArcSight architecture work?

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 Individual Smart Connectors, as well as a Connector Appliance, accumulate and process occasion information from organizing gadgets and pass it to the Manager. The Manager procedures and stores occasion information in the CORR-Engine. Clients screen occasions in ArcSight Web and oversee client gatherings and the CORR-Engine stockpiling utilizing the ArcSight Command Center, and create content and perform propelled examination on the ArcSight Console. A far-reaching arrangement of discretionary items give measurable quality log the board, organize the executives and moment remediation, administrative consistence, and propelled occasion examination.

Q10. What is difference between ArcSight and QRadar?

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QRadar is primarily a network behavior anomaly detection tool, and hence its network behavior abilities outperform most of its competitors. ArcSight offers the IdentityView feature that allows the tool to detect identity breaches and threats even when the account is not active.

Q11. What is Active Channel in ArcSight?

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Active Channels are a way to investigate the events and to view event stream live or historical events. Active List is a kind of a data store whereas Active channel is not a data store.

Q12. What is use case in ArcSight?

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Quite simply a Use Case is some problem or issue that you want to raise awareness of and provide a course of action for your team within your monitoring tools. Sticking to Arcsight, a Use Case is why content is built.

Q13. What is ArcSight marketplace?

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ArcSight Recon is a comprehensive log management and security analytics solution that eases compliance burdens and accelerates forensic investigation for security professionals. It combines the compliance, storage and reporting needs of log management with the capabilities of big-data search and analysis.