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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Friday, March 7th, 2008
I'd like to welcome Peter Giannoulis to the Log Analysis Professionals stable of professional bloggers.
Peter is an information security consultant in Toronto, Ontario. Over the last 9 years Peter has been involved in the design and implementation of client defenses using many different security technologies. He is also skilled in ...
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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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Sunday, February 3rd, 2008
Many who know me, know that I am a huge fan of free security resources. Papers from the SANS Information Security Reading Room are just such a resource. Two new papers were recently posted to the reading room that are certainly worth checking out. I'm sure the authors would greatly ...
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Tuesday, January 29th, 2008
I'd like to welcome Harlan Carvey to the Log Analysis Professionals stable of professional bloggers.
Harlan is a nerd who does incident response and computer forensics work, and is based out of the Metro DC area. In an effort to demonstrate just how much of a nerd he is, Harlan has ...
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Tuesday, January 29th, 2008
I'd like to welcome Daniel Cid to the Log Analysis Professionals stable of professional bloggers.
Daniel Cid is the creator and main developer of the OSSEC HIDS (Open Source Security Host Intrusion Detection System). Daniel has been working in the security area for many years, with a special interest in intrusion ...
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