Security Log Management is managed by Jacob Babbin. There are patterns in the chaos.

This book teaches IT professionals how to analyze, manage, and automate their security log files to generate useful, repeatable information that can be used to make their networks more efficient and secure using primarily open source tools. Every IT professional should be analyzing the Top 10 security logs. The 10 logs cover everything from the top workstations to the top targets of IDS alert. The relevancy of this information is discussed in the book. The book shows how to script open source reporting tools to correlate log files from various network devices to the top 10 list. The IT professional is immediately made aware of any critical vulnerabilities or degradation of network performance. All of the script that was presented in the book will be available for download.

log file is a type of file produced by almost every operating system. This is true of both open source tools and commercial software. The logs are reviewed and analyzed by a system administrator or security professional who is responsible for that particular piece of hardware or software. Most of the IT industry works with log files.

Security Log Management is a turn-key, inexpensive, open source solution for system administrators to analyze and evaluate the overall performance and security of their network. There are patterns in the chaos. Dozens of working script and tools presented throughout the book are available for download. System administrators will save a lot of time byAutomating the most common log analysis tasks.