Log Management & Intelligence

Compliance Glossary

Here is a great resource for all terms compliance from the folks at Compliance Pipeline. Once you have mastered  your terms, try this quiz.

Links & Blinks:: Sep 28, 05

IT Observer on something very relevant to LogLogic - automation of compliance efforts. We play a key role in automating aspects of any compliance effort concerned with infrastructure and transaction logs:

• What’s in store for compliance and information security efforts for the second year of Sarbanes-Oxley requirements? Fifty-eight percent of financial executives recently surveyed say improving the monitoring, structure, and vetting of their compliance controls is now a top priority. Half also plan to thoroughly vet existing business processes, and 43 percent want to further automate manual controls, especially for compliance-related reconciliation and security procedures.

Information Protection

With Port Authority, we've been speaking to the issue of information protection. Log management and intelligence plays a critical role in protecting information and mitigating risks. Take a look at our recent web cast for more.

InformationWeek reports that messaging reportedly makes financial industry vulnerable to compliance breaches:

“In an industry where protecting intellectual property plays a key role in the health of the business, it is troubling that more than 75 percent of the employees surveyed felt that it would be easy to send proprietary information outside of the company,” said Orchestria CEO Bo Manning. “As technology advances and more channels of communication are accessible in the work place, the potential for breaches will only increase.”

A systematic approach to log management and intelligence, with automated alerting and reporting on 100% of log data - not just the 4% or less that most SIEM solutions address - is a critical best practice for any IT organization looking to fill this hole.

Links & Blinks:: Sep 26, 05

• Basel II Falls Flat:: Compliance Pipeline
  

• Metrics Fall Short of Mark on Security:: Computerworld.

"Most metrics only indicate that a security program is doing the things it needs to do," said Scott Blake, chief information security officer (CISO) at Boston-based Liberty Mutual Insurance Co. "It doesn't get us to a point where we have a real understanding of the risks to the data."

• Credit Card companies can keep data ID theft secret:: The Register

New Loggies

We've been growing the team here at Log Logic. New Loggies are Andrew Lark, chief marketing officer and Tony Chang , vp of engineering. Welcome to both - they'll be posting here soon. Here is what Chris had to say:

 “LogLogic continues to attract world-class talent, underscoring the excitement and interest in the market for our groundbreaking solutions,” said Christopher D. Brennan, president and chief executive officer at LogLogic. “Driven by compliance, security and risk mitigation, enterprises of all kinds are standardizing and automating their log management processes – from storage and reporting to proactive alerting on security and other issues. The automation, search and analysis of all this data can be characterized as ‘log intelligence’ for executives, and provides compliance conformance and risk mitigation for an enterprise.”

Welcome...

Welcome to the LogBlog, LogLogic's Blog on all things to do with us and, data log management and intelligence. We're all about the logs that come from IT. Think storage, applications, networking, servers and operating systems. Don't think logs from trees.

Our basic categories work like this:

• Blinks: short snippets of news and other stuff we're pointing to that could be of interest
• Innovation: thinking and observations from our scientists and geeks
• Log Management & Intelligence: General thinking and observations on log management and intelligence best practices
• LogEd: Updates and content from our education program
• LogLogic News: breaking company news
• LogMatters: highlights from our eZine and newsletters
• Risk Management: thinking and observations on how log management and intelligence can be applied to reduce enterprise risk
• Security: same as above but for security
• Compliance: same as above but for compliance

You will see posts from Andy Lark, CMO; Dominique Levin, VP product marketing; Jian Zhen; and many more - we hope. We're going to keep the content mixed - technical and business. This reflects what our customers asked to hear. Give us feedback and share thoughts.