[logs] Re: Log integrity handling on central logsystem

From: Patrick Debois (Patrick.Debois@private)
Date: Wed Aug 23 2006 - 07:34:42 PDT


Anton Chuvakin wrote:
> Patrick,
>
> I am curious what prompted such integrity requirements - regulation,
> internal policy or something else?  I am sure other list members are
> curious about it as well ...
It's the ICT departement getting paranoid. I guess that is not the first
time ;-(
The customer is financial related but currently we're not looking at
specific regulations.
>
> On 8/21/06, Patrick Debois <Patrick.Debois@private> wrote:
>> I'm looking for feedback how centralized log solutions handle data
>> integrity; If you would log directly to a central system, that log is
>> the only source. So you would miss something to compare against.
>>
>> -Would you rely on taking checksums of the logs and storing them on
>> another system?
>> -How do you protect yourself from the fact that the central logging is
>> compromised with a still growing logfile?
>> Would you consider signing each log line? Signing within a text file is
>> fairly easy, but what about content stored in a database?
>>
>> My customer is currently looking at Splunk. It seems a great way to go
>> through the logfiles, but I'm not sure that we can fullfill his
>> dataintegrity requirements with it. But then again it does not stand in
>> the way of another solution doing it probable.
>>
>> Patrick
>>
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