Too Long; Didn't Read
I have been dealing with logs and analysis for a while now and met quite a lot of confusion regarding this topic. Not only at the C-suite or other high ranking non-technical meetings but even among the technical personnell who are not that familiar with different aspects of logs. This inspired me to write a short overview.<br> <br>When talking about logging, there are five different aspects to consider.<br> <br><strong>1. Event logging<br></strong>The reasons for logging and log analysis might vary from the need to deal with system performance to financial fraud or insider threats. Whatever the reasons, it is important to actually log something in your systems to have something to analyse. At the end of the day it all drills down to the quality of log event.