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, ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Wednesday, March 5th, 2008
The Academy (http://www.theacademy.ca) officially launches its web site today providing instructional videos for the information security community. For the first time ever, the average user to the most seasoned industry expert will be able to watch instructional videos on how to install popular products, address common configuration issues, and troubleshoot ...
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Monday, February 18th, 2008
Although not a new concept, I thought I'd remind people of the benefits of sending your security, system, and application logs across a segregated network to maintain availability. Consider the following scenario:
Your network is experiencing a horrible worm outbreak that is eating up critical bandwidth as it attempts to spread ...
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