Just a quick note to my readers: see you at RSA 2012 next week. I am around Monday-Thursday and even though most of my time is booked, you can probably find me near the press room at odd hours.
Here is my next monthly "Security Warrior" blog round-up of top 5 popular posts based on last month’s visitor data (excluding other monthly or annual round-ups): “New SIEM Whitepaper on Use Cases In-Depth OUT!” (dated 2010 – much ancient!) presents a whitepaper on select SIEM use cases described in depth with rules and reports [using now-defunct SIEM product]; also see this SIEM use case in depth and this for a more current list of popular SIEM use cases. Finally, see our research on developing security monitoring use cases here – and that we updated for 2018 . A lot more SIEM use case discussion is coming, here is a new post for 2018 SIEM use cases. “ Simple Log Review Checklist Released! ” is often at the top of this list – this rapidly aging checklist is still a useful tool for many people. “ On Free Log Management Tools ” (also aged quite a bit by now) is a companion to the checklist ( updated version ) “ Why No Open Source SIEM, EVER? ” contains some...
Blogs are "stateless" and people often pay attention only to what they see today . Thus a lot of useful security reading material gets lost. These monthly round-ups is my way of reminding people about interesting blog content. If you are “too busy to read the blogs,” at least read these . So, here is my next monthly "Security Warrior" blog round-up of top 5 popular posts/topics this month. The hilarious “ Top 10 Things Your Log Management Vendor Won't Tell You ”, written for LogManagementCentral , reign supreme this month! Read, laugh, weep…log. My PCI DSS log review procedures that I created for a consulting client and started posting on the blog (sanitized, of course!) took the top spot again: the first post “ Complete PCI DSS Log Review Procedures, Part 1 ” and the whole series “ PCI_Log_Review ” are expected to be useful to most large organization under PCI DSS as well as other regulations To my great excitement, “ To...
Here is my next monthly "Security Warrior" blog round-up of top 5 popular posts/topics this month: “ Simple Log Review Checklist Released! ” is often at the top of this list – the checklist is still a very useful tool for many people. “ On Free Log Management Tools ” is a companion to the checklist ( updated version ) “ Why No Open Source SIEM, EVER? ” contains some of my SIEM thinking from 2009. Is it relevant now? Well, you be the judge. “New SIEM Whitepaper on Use Cases In-Depth OUT!” (dated 2010) presents a whitepaper on select SIEM use cases described in depth with rules and reports ( the paper link is now restored!) – also see this SIEM use case in depth. My classic PCI DSS Log Review series is popular as well. The series of 18 posts cover a comprehensive log review approach, useful for building log review processes and procedures, whether regulatory or not. It is also described in more detail in our Log Management book . “SANS Top 6 Log Reports Reborn!” is ...
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