Log Retention

Log retention goals can be achieved

Log Retention is a huge part of meeting compliance and ensuring long term security. Every company worldwide has been wrestling with the task of collection and management of the event logs that are being generated all across their enterprise. The reason this is such a quandary is because there are millions of logs generated daily and IT teams are not only required to collect and store them, they are also supposed to analyzed them. Although these requirements that are expected of them seem to be a bit overzealous it does make sense to review them for potential breaches in security.

The common attitude is “we will do it, but it is too costly”, “too time consuming”, “the process needs to be thought out”, and the list goes on

Most companies have not been truly successful in accomplishing all these goals that they have set out to achieve. The reason they haven’t is because there are several large barriers preventing them:

• Perceived cost of hardware to store all the logs
• Perceived cost and time to set-up and maintain the hardware
• Administrators need to see value in the purpose of reviewing the convoluted security logs which are very difficult to understand
• There are very limited tools to help make the process easier and valuable

LogClarity® is designed to solve all of these issues that IT managers face from the financial side and IT administrators and security personnel face on the logistical side.

LogClarity® stands in a class all its own because it is designed specifically for Windows security logs. The years of research into the redundancy problem and retired logs that Microsoft doesn’t widely disclose causes a huge amount of confusion and can make forensics and log retention extremely difficult. LogClarity® takes an “Analyze First” approach by utilizing LCDF technology to automatically analyze and reduce the redundant logs. The LCDF is every security administrator’s secret weapon against poor inaccurate log collection and retention.

Long-term collection and storage of Windows security logs without a huge investment into additional hardware has been a pie in the sky for many years. This is not a pipe dream anymore. LogClarity® delivers true accurate security logs without the redundancy problems. A powerful side-effect of this capability is the forensic analysis enhancements that are achieved from the LCDF technology. Instead of searching through millions of logs per day, there are considerably less logs to deal with that are actually accurate and complete. This increases security and improves compliance reporting because quickly security administrators can easily discern what is occurring which goes hand in hand with understand the logs.