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Log review and management

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Overview

Purpose:

  • Communicate potential risks to stakeholder.
  • Communicate rationale for security-relevant decisions to stakeholder.

Role:

  • who typically does this

Frequency:

Log Review Tips

Critical systems require at least daily log review, however, what types of logs/activities should we pay attention to? 1. Consecutive login failure especially in non-office hour. 2. Login in non-office hour. 3. Authority change, addition and removal. Check them against with authorized application. 4. Any system administrator's activities 5. Any unknown workstation/server are plugged into the network? 6. Logs removal/log overwritten/log size is full 7. Pay more attention to the log reports after week-end and holiday 8. Any account unlocked/password reset by system administrators without authorized forms?

Subactivity 2

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Subactivity 3

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