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              <h1>What Apache Metron Does </h1>
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            <p>Apache Metron provides a scalable advanced security analytics framework built with the Hadoop Community evolving from the Cisco OpenSOC Project. A cyber security application framework that provides organizations the ability to detect cyber anomalies and enable organizations to rapidly respond to identified anomalies.</p>
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                                <h6>Don’t spend days looking at alerts created by rules when only a few alerts matter</h6>
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                                <h6>Metron enables massive amounts of data to identify and triage anomalies</h6>
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                                <h6>Automatically create incidents/cases with integrated workflow systems</h6>
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                                <h6>“Just in time evidence collection response” transforms data in real-time</h6>
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