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The Importance of Log Management in Today’s Insecure World

For my last session of the first day of the TRISC 2009 Conference, I made the mistake of attending Ricky Allen and Randy Holloway’s presentation on “The Importance of Log Management in Today’s Insecure World”.  I say “mistake” because out of all of the presentations I attended over the entire three days of the conference […]

Log Management for Dummies (aka Splunk)

Logs are one thing that I think are severely underutilized by most systems administrators. Most of us have taken the first step by actually logging the data, but neglect organizing it into any sort of manageable form. You’ll probably argue that any hardcore *nix admin would be able to take the raw logs using grep, […]