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Seems like everyone’s trying to come out w/ some big news this RSA week. LOGLOGIC’S VP of Product Management to Present at RSA Security … Business Wire (press release) – San Francisco,CA,USA This presentation will address one of the fastest growing issues in IT: “log analysis.” During the session, the panel will discuss relevant topics [...]

Greg Shipley has done a review for GuardedNet’s neuSecure product. Security information management offerings are in mid evolution. One such work in progress, GuardedNet’s neuSecure, is a SIM platform worth watching. I tested an early beta of neuSecure 3.0 and found that, though it’s rough around the edges, it’s a clear step up from version [...]

Logreport.org has some really good information on email log formats. Check it out. Sendmail Postfix Exchange

A modified version of Five Business Mistakes of Log Analysis has been published on Computerworld’s Feb 7, 2005 issue. Why IT Projects Fail

Check Point tool to keep an eye on networks Check Point getting into the SIM space? why? Eventia Analyzer software licenses are expected to cost $1,000 per device. Holy cow! I don’t know about you but that’s pretty damn expensive! On top of all that, you still need to get all the hardware to run [...]

Recently I have been traveling around to talk to our customers. I wanted to find out from them how they are using our products and what else they would like to see. Some common themes: Give me performance, performance, performance. How many messages/sec you can parse is important, but how fast you can give me [...]

LogLogic’s going to have a booth in RSA (#1142) and I will probably be there for booth duty. If you are there, please come on by to say hi. I would love to meet some of you.

I have been buried under piles of work and haven’t had much time to write. After spending almost every waking hours managing the product roadmap, analyzing the competition and market, talking to customers, and responding to RFPs, I’ve pretty much spent the rest of the time catching up on sleep. (Did I tell you I [...]

Automated and Secure Log File Analysis Service – SLAC. An Intelligent Log File Analysis System to keep you informed about your Web Servers safety and your Checkpoint FW-1. No software required! Interesting idea…I am just not sure that administrators will feel safe enough to send their corporate logs to an external service like this. Obviously [...]

DON’T Ignore Lowly Log Analysis by Douglas Schweitzer. Ever take a look at the computer security hardware and software products available these days? The number of them is staggering. They promise to (and for the most part do) help keep your workstations and servers secure. Nonetheless, although these routers, firewalls and intrusion-detection and -prevention systems [...]