Monthly Blog Round-Up – April 2014

Here is my next monthly "Security Warrior" blog round-up of top 5 popular posts/topics this month:

1. “Simple Log Review Checklist Released!” is often at the top of this list – the checklist is still a very useful tool for many people. “On Free Log Management Tools” is a companion to the checklist (updated version)
2. My classic PCI DSS Log Review series is popular as well. The series of 18 posts cover a comprehensive log review approach, useful for building log review processes and procedures, whether regulatory or not. It is also described in more detail in our Log Management book.
3. “New SIEM Whitepaper on Use Cases In-Depth OUT!” (dated 2010) presents a whitepaper on select SIEM use cases described in depth with rules and reports [using now-defunct SIEM product]; the paper link is now working again, BTW – also see this SIEM use case in depth.
4. “Top 10 Criteria for a SIEM?” came from one of my last projects I did when running my SIEM consulting firm in 2009-2011.
5. “SANS Top 6 Log Reports Reborn!” is a new post that announces that many people’ work on best log reports has finally been published as “The 6 Categories of Critical Log Information” (with a subtitle of “Top 6 SANS Essential Categories of Log Reports 2013”)

In addition, I’d like to draw your attention to a few recent posts from my Gartner blog:

Current research on threat intelligence (TI):

• Threat Assessment – A Tough Subject (And Sharks with Fricking Lasers!)
• On Threat Intelligence Management Platforms
• How to Use Threat Intelligence with Your SIEM?
• On Internally-sourced Threat Intelligence
• Delving into Threat Actor Profiles
• On Threat Intelligence Sources
• How to Make Better Threat Intelligence Out of Threat Intelligence Data?
• On Threat Intelligence Use Cases
• On Broad Types of Threat Intelligence
• Threat Intelligence is NOT Signatures!
• The Conundrum of Two Intelligences!
• On Comparing Threat Intelligence Feeds
• Consumption of Shared Security Data
• From IPs to TTPs

Miscellaneous fun posts:

• Security And/Or/Vs/Not Compliance?
• SIEM Webinar Questions – Answered
• If You Use Window XP – You Are NOT PCI DSS Compliant!

(see my published Gartner research here)

Also see my past monthly and annual “Top Popular Blog Posts” – 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013.

Disclaimer: most content at SecurityWarrior blog was written before I joined Gartner on Aug 1, 2011 and is solely my personal view at the time of writing. For my current security blogging, go here.

Previous post in this endless series:

• Monthly Blog Round-Up – March 2014
• All posts tagged monthly