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 ...

This publication defines a baseline for event logging best practices to mitigate cyber threats. It was developed by the Australian Signals Directorate’s Australian Cyber Security Centre (ASD’s ACSC) ...

SIEM and SOAR allow enterprises to collect and correlate log event data but may not be the ideal choice for every organization. Microsoft’s Windows Event Forwarding aggregates system event logs from ...

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 ...

I'm writing a Windows app in unmanaged C++ and want to log some simple events to the Application log. I'm normally a *nix guy and am used to being able to just call syslog() (or asl(3) on Mac OS X). I ...

At times, the information Windows Defender or Windows Security displays is quite difficult to understand. If you use this security shield on your computer and want to comprehend all the information ...

Security information and event management (SIEM) is a device and environmental analysis strategy intended to help secure and protect company operations, data, and personnel. By providing a ...

The log data you collect from your systems and devices may seem pretty mundane. However, it could contain the precise evidence needed to investigate and successfully prosecute a crime. In order for ...

Am I the only one to notice that the two big trends of the day, cloud computing and mobile tech, seem to have so little to do with the core issues that concern IT professionals? While the guys at ...