Archive for May, 2008
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, ...
Posted in The Art of Log Analysis |
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 ...
Posted in Log Analysis Professionals |
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 ...
Posted in Log Analysis Professionals |
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 ...
Posted in Log Analysis Professionals |