Antivirus and Firewall: Building Layered Defense with SIEM
The advice to install antivirus and enable the firewall remains common security guidance. It is also incomplete. Those controls can block malicious code and unwanted traffic, but they do not automatically link an endpoint detection to the firewall event that came before it, identify a compromised identity, or tell an analyst whether a policy change was legitimate. The operational difference matters. Antivirus and firewall serve as foundational...