Avoiding Silent Automation
See how you can work with Python's flexible logging system to create an overall monitoring system that includes the messages from your network devices, your infrastructure applications, and your automation scripts.
Logging
Mid Season Check-in with NetDevOps Live!
NetDevOps Live! episodes in April were fantastic, looking at Ansible, GitLab, Batfish and HashiCorp. Get ready for May's amazing line-up, with shows on Postman, NetBox, and ELK!
Announcing NetDevOps Live! Season 3
Take a look at what we've got in store for Season 3 of NetDevOps Live! — powerful tooling available that every NetDevOps engineer can use in their tool chest: Batfish, Postman, HashiCorp, Ansible Network Automation, NetBox and more!
The Power of Logging in Incident Response
A deep dive into logging as an often-overlooked but powerful tool for incident detection and response “Lack of instrumentation or insufficient logging” is often a phrase used on incident response...
Using a “Playbook” Model to Organize Your Information Security Monitoring Strategy
CSIRT, I have a project for you. We have a big network and we’re definitely getting hacked constantly. Your group needs to develop and implement security monitoring to get our malware and hacking problem under control. If you’ve
To SIEM or Not to SIEM? Part II
The Great Correlate Debate SIEMs have been pitched in the past as "correlation engines" and their special algorithms can take in volumes of logs and filter everything down to just...
To SIEM or Not to SIEM? Part I
Security information and event management systems (SIEM, or sometimes SEIM) are intended to be the glue between an organization's various security tools. Security and other event log sources export their...
Getting a Handle on Your Data
When your incident response team gets access to a new log data source, chances are that the events may not only contain an entirely different type of data, but may also be formatted differently than any log data source you already have. Having a data
Making Boring Logs Interesting
This post centers around the practice of logging data - data from applications, devices, and networks - and how the components of data logging can help in the identification and remediation of network events.