Log and event management is now a requirement for organizations that need to monitor security and IT policy enforcement, document compliance, and achieve IT operations excellence without increasing ...

System logs are akin to a continuous, detailed journal that records events and activities happening within a computer system. These logs are pivotal for diagnosing problems, understanding user ...

Analyzing network security events for intrusion detection and forensics is a good and popular reason to implement log management, but it’s not the only reason. Auditing and compliance are becoming ...

Logs are central to forensic investigations, but only if they're collected, stored long enough, contain everything investigators need, and the bad guys don't get to them first. That's a big "if." ...

If you are looking for good free software to view, manage and analyze your Windows Event Logs, you may want to check out these three – Event Log Manager, Event Log Explorer and Lepide Event Log ...

In 2019, a seemingly innocuous and routine software update from SolarWinds, a Texas-based energy company, cascaded into a major cyberattack that affected the Pentagon, the U.S. Treasury, Justice and ...

Leading log management vendors like ArcSight, LogRhythm, Q1 Labs, and others realize that log management isn’t just about collecting and storing esoteric IT data, it is about providing organizations ...

In most big security breaches, there’s a familiar thread: something funny was going on, but no one noticed. The information was in the logs, but no one was looking for it. Logs from the hundreds or ...

Software has become more granular. Not just in terms of components, de-coupled services, containers and the way we separate parallel programming streams, but also in terms of process. More ...

Things are tense right now globally. The geopolitical environment is volatile, and cyberattacks can be both a cause and a symptom of this instability. Nation states are looking to disrupt their ...