Archive for May, 2008

WASL ‘08 Call for Papers

Thursday, May 15th, 2008

This is really cool news! The First USENIX Workshop on the Analysis of System Logs (WASL '08) is happening on December 7th, 2008 in San Diego, CA. About the event: System logs contain a wide variety of information about system status and health, including events from various applications, daemons, and drivers, ...

SANS Security Laboratory “Thought Leaders” Article

Tuesday, May 13th, 2008

Stephen Northcutt, of SANS Institute fame, recently recognized me as a Thought Leader in the area of log management. I'm quite humbled to be included with the likes of our own Log Analysis Professional contributors Dr. Anton Chuvakin and Ron Gula (among others). The interview has been posted on the SANS ...

How to Make Logs Sexy … Again!?

Thursday, May 8th, 2008

Now, some people hate logging, because logs are too hard to deal with (enable, collect, store and especially understand and interpret). However, there is a whole other group of fairly intelligent people who "hate logs:" the organizers of some well-known technical security conferences. The experience of many ...

How to Fight “Log Apathy”?

Wednesday, May 7th, 2008

So, I was talking to this small log management vendor the other day and he confided to me that his product faces fierce competition in his target market (which is, important to note, small to medium companies with 10-100 systems): and this competition is apathy. More specifically, his ...