Recently, Log Management and SIEM vendors have spent a lot of time updating/fixing their products.  Over the past few months some vendors have quietly passed over other solutions in terms of market relevance and certainly the door has been opened to a whole bunch of upstarts trying to make a name for themselves.  While the majority of Log Management and SIEM business (and therefore product direction) is driven by compliance activities, I appreciate the forward movement towards enterprise security that many in the field are trying to make.  The initial execution on that product vision I’m seeing from many of the vendors this year is very welcome.  IMHO the entire space had gotten very stale with the big guys mainly focusing on compliance appliances or playing feature catch-up with one another.  Here’s my summary of what’s going on in SIEM and Log Management so far in 2009.