We sometimes complain that the Security Operations Center (SOC) doesn’t spot cyber-attacks on time, but maybe we’re not giving them critical information they need to do their job. SIEM stands for Security Information and Event Management; it encompasses systems which combine information from multiple sources to detect, analyze and respond to cybersecurity threats. The SQL Server error log contains not only restore / batch / stop / restart / kernel and server-level messages, but mainly contains relevant events useful to security analysts.
Once an adversary has made its way into the database (i.e. using SQL Injection), there will be many