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A lot of firms collect massive amounts of data every day (up to billions of events)
to improve their security efforts, enhance their business intelligence, and refine
their marketing strategies. Their log storage drives are so big that some of them
even brag about the size, to show their public and clients how advanced their
technologies are. But what�s the point of storing petabytes of data when you cannot
measurably make sense of it? Tons of security alerts and incident reports are
pointless when you can�t deal with them all quickly enough.
But it also improves your business�s security, providing you a safe and secure
place to store all your log data. Cybersecurity is all about mitigation, and even
if a network or a single machine is compromised, the wanna-be hacker won�t be able
to access the logs safely stashed in your central log repository. Cybercriminals
will also have a much harder time erasing their intrusion traces since they cannot
delete system logs so easily when all data is stored in a single location. When
logs are centralized, the management software can easily take into account the
entire organization�s infrastructure at the same time, including its different
units, improving the overall visibility and enhancing the cyber posture.
Storing centralized data is also a much more efficient solution. Most routers and
firewalls must save some buffer for logs, increasing their burden as space is not
unlimited. Old records get discarded all the time to make space, but the newest
ones still eat up precious disk space on most machines. Centralized loggers have a
much greater storage capacity, but what�s even better, they can identify suspicious
patterns since they can evaluate information in much larger time intervals.
If you�re still confused on what is the best approach to centralize your logs,
we�re here to help you. We can offer you training to teach you all the steps needed
to fully implement the most efficient centralizing strategy needed in your
environment.