Why aren’t we looking at logs?

| Posted in General Techologies

Most of the logs generated in a corporate infrastructure are not reviewed. They are either archived and never looked at, or worse, never even retrieved and archived. Much of the logs generated by devices and applications evaporate into the ether and not missed. There are many reasons why most of these logs and events are [...]

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October 3rd, 2004 | Jian Zhen | No Comments

Why Log Matters (#2)

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These days, any large corporate infrastructure can generate tens of thousands of events/logs per second: – A single PIX firewall in a moderately busy environment, with DEBUG level logging turned on, can generate one to two thousands logs per second. – A single high traffic web server will handle hundreds of connections per second. – [...]

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October 2nd, 2004 | Jian Zhen | No Comments

Why Log Matters

| Posted in General Techologies

Over the past year I have attempted to create a blog several times but have failed. The main problem being that there was a lack of focus on the topic. I wasn’t sure what I wanted to write about. Recently, I have been doing some research on the log management/SIM/SEM space and have found very [...]

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October 1st, 2004 | Jian Zhen | No Comments