<s>
Security	B-General_Concept
information	I-General_Concept
management	I-General_Concept
(	O
SIM	O
)	O
is	O
an	O
information	O
security	O
industry	O
term	O
for	O
the	O
collection	O
of	O
data	O
such	O
as	O
log	B-Application
files	I-Application
into	O
a	O
central	O
repository	O
for	O
trend	O
analysis	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
data	O
that	O
is	O
sent	O
to	O
the	O
server	O
to	O
be	O
correlated	O
and	O
analyzed	O
are	O
normalized	O
by	O
the	O
software	O
agents	O
into	O
a	O
common	O
form	O
,	O
usually	O
XML	B-Protocol
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
term	O
commonly	O
used	O
to	O
represent	O
an	O
entire	O
security	O
infrastructure	O
that	O
protects	O
an	O
environment	O
is	O
commonly	O
called	O
information	B-Application
security	I-Application
management	I-Application
(	O
InfoSec	O
)	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Security	B-General_Concept
information	I-General_Concept
management	I-General_Concept
is	O
also	O
referred	O
to	O
as	O
log	O
management	O
and	O
is	O
different	O
from	O
SEM	O
(	O
security	O
event	O
management	O
)	O
,	O
but	O
makes	O
up	O
a	O
portion	O
of	O
a	O
SIEM	O
(	O
security	O
information	O
and	O
event	O
management	O
)	O
solution	O
.	O
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