The True Cause of Deficient Forensics & Innacurate Reporting
Event logs can either “reveal or conceal” security breaches or operational issues. Utilizing solutions that provide true accurate forensics and reporting based on “real data” is the key. Many events are redundant, misleading, duplicated or retired by Microsoft. These painful event types account for over 76% of all Windows events. The native Windows events are virtually useless in their native form. Many are completely unusable; others need to be correlated together to understand the true scope of the event.
Other logging solutions do not correct this major deficiency. In fact, the Windows auditing system is the leading cause of data pollution. Data pollution occurs when a significant amount of data that is stored in a database is flawed or incorrect. Any organization that utilizes logging tools that collect all the Windows event logs, without intelligently filtering them, will have major data pollution problems. As a result, reports will be inaccurate, and storage requirement costs will increase. Most importantly, determining real activity across the enterprise will be degraded.
LogClarity® Prevents Data Pollution
LogClarity® prevents data pollution by analyzing event logs, in real-time, before the logs are collected and stored. LogClarity’s intelligent analysis ensures powerful forensics, accurate reporting, increased log retention, and provides real, usable event log data. The mindless collection tools of the syslog era are no match for the current log management needs of IT professionals. Event logs need to be translated, filtered, and correlated before they are centrally stored. Converting these disjointed event logs into usable information is paramount. Organizations that don’t have intelligent log management solutions cannot prevent data pollution. LogClarity’s unique analyze first methodologies are the best defense against data pollution and poor log retention.