Monthly Blog Round-Up – February 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. “Why No Open Source SIEM, EVER?” contains some of my SIEM thinking from 2009. Is it relevant now? Well, you be the judge.
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 (the paper link is now restored!) – also see this SIEM use case in depth.
4. 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.
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:

• 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
• Starting Threat Intelligence Research

Past research on using big data approaches for security:

• Our “Security Information and Event Management Futures and Big Data Analytics for Security” Paper Publishes
• Big Data Analytics Mindset – What Is It?
• Big Data for Security Realities – Case 4: Big But Narrowly Used Data
• Big Data for Security Realities – Case 3: Elastic Search or Similar
• Big Data for Security Realities – Case 2 Variety Explosion
• Big Data for Security Realities - Case 1 Too Much Volume To Store aka “Big Data Collection”
• More On Big Data Security Analytics Readiness
• Broadening Big Data Definition Leads to Security Idiotics!
• Next Research Project: From Big Data Analytics to … Patching
• 9 Reasons Why Building A Big Data Security Analytics Tool Is Like Building a Flying Car
• “Big Analytics” for Security: A Harbinger or An Outlier?

 

(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.

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