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Why would a legitimate application run on a non-standard port?

Among the many "threats", I see on my SIEM, a non-standard port is a top one. It's always been a false positive, but I don't understand why this happens frequently?
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Fortigate Creating Millions of DNS events to standard domains [closed]

I am trying to tune our SIEM and noticed that we are receiving millions of DNS records every day from the same domains. These are: update.microsoft.com swscan.apple.com softwareupdate.vmware.com ...
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How IDS and Firewall Logs are aggregated and feed aggregated log to SIEM?

I am studying SIEM tools. Firewall logs will be different from IDS logs and even from Antivirus logs. How can log aggregation take place?
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How to find why so many host are talking to an IP which is blacklisted

In my SIEM tool, I got multiple alerts for communication with malware sites from Palo Alto firewall. I have seen many outbound communications from internal IPs toward IP: 74.217.31.51 having host name:...
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Weird issue with Firewall blocking NATed packets

From my SIEM I am seeing that a (we don't own the FW) Cisco ASA is blocking packets destined for the internal network (post NAT), here's what I'm seeing (IP addresses are faked due to security) 170....
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