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Log Management Best Practices: The Foundation for Comprehensive Security Information and Event Management

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Overview Although best practices should be developed by each individual organization based on their particular environment, there are some general best practices which can be universally applied. This paper is intended to help organizations develop their own comprehensive set of best practices by providing a set of 40 recommended best practices covering logging policies, procedures and technology; log generation and capture; log retention and storage; log analysis; and log security and protection.

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Publisher	RSA Security	File Format	PDF
Date Published	July 2007
Format	White Papers
Topics	Security Management, Best Practices

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