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Can CISGuard integrate with SIEM?

Yes. CISGuard forwards scan, drift, exception and alert events over syslog (UDP, TCP or TLS), CEF, JSON over HTTPS, Azure Log Analytics or Grafana Loki, so they land in any SIEM, including Splunk, Microsoft Sentinel, IBM QRadar and Elastic Security. Events carry a consistent field layout, multiple destinations run in parallel, and failed deliveries are retried and retained.

The longer answer.

A SIEM is the central place a security operations team correlates events from across the estate, so feeding configuration and drift signals into it means compliance posture is no longer siloed away from the rest of monitoring. A drift alert that a hardened setting was loosened becomes an event an analyst can correlate with authentication logs or network activity, turning a compliance observation into potential early warning of an incident rather than a report read only at audit time.

The friction in these integrations is usually normalization: every source speaks a slightly different event shape, and analysts spend effort writing parsers before the data is usable. Emitting events over standard transports such as syslog, CEF and JSON over HTTPS with a consistent field layout lets them slot into existing detection rules and dashboards without bespoke parsing.

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