Businesses have finally identified the need for strong security mechanisms to protect their technical infrastructure, proprietary data and confidential client information. Most businesses have ...

For security professionals and forensics investigators, it doesn't get any more basic than the unrelenting flow of log data generated by countless machines attached to the enterprise backbone. The ...

With each high-profile data breach (such as those at The TJX Companies and the U.S. Department of Agriculture) or new regulation, security emphasis seems to shift away from the traditional “keep bad ...

Collecting too much log data overwhelms systems and staff. Centralized event log management lets you filter for the most significant security data. More companies are using their security logs to ...

Verizon Business today added a log management feature to its managed security services portfolio that the company says will help businesses efficiently track information needed to meet data security ...

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 ...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology released technical guidelines on how federal agencies should manage security logs. The guidelines cover log generation, transmission, storage, ...

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 ...

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 ...

The term relational database is almost superfluous these days. After all, every major commercial database product—Oracle, Sybase, DB2—is based on the same underlying relational model. There are many ...

The Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration said the IRS, while generally diligent in its use of the Cyber Security Assessment and Management application (run by the Department of Justice ...