Event Log Management Articles

Read articles from industry experts New Net Technologies to find out about best practices in keeping your IT systems secure.

Information is power when it comes to guarding your IT system against cyber-attacks. Click on a link below to find out how event log management can help you to gather logs and analyse them for suspicious activity.

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Event Log, Audit Log and Syslog messages have always been a good source of troubleshooting and diagnostic information, but the need to back up audit trail files to a centralized log server is now a mandatory component of many governance standards.

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Whether you are working from a SANS 20 Security Best Practices approach or working with an auditor for SOX compliance or QSA for PCI compliance, you will be implementing a logging solution.

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If you're thinking "That's hardly breaking news?" I would tend to agree. However, it is still providing plenty of copy even though the PCI DSS was introduced seven long years ago. At the time it was 'mandatory' and 'urgent' but the problem now is that, so many firms have avoided or delayed measures that overcoming the apathy often associated with PCI compliance is getting more difficult.

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It is well known that Anti-Virus technology is fallible and will continue to be so by design. The landscape (Threatscape?) is always changing and AV systems will typically update their malware signature repositories at least once per day in an attempt to keep up with the new threats that have been isolated since the previous update.

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