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Difference between revisions of "Practical Logging In Web Applications"
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==The Problem== | ==The Problem== | ||
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| − | + | All web application security experts will tell you how important logging is [1][2][3][4]. How else can you detect attacks, successful or otherwise? Logs should allow you to replay a user's request lifecycle. In an enterprise web application, this is a lot of work and I'm not happy to tell you not many people are doing it right. | |
| + | There's generally two things development teams have to figure out when architecting a logging strategy; what to log and when to log. | ||
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| + | ===When to Log=== | ||
| + | There's sdfsdf | ||
| + | sdfsdfsdf | ||
| + | sdfsdfsdf | ||
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| + | ===What to Log=== | ||
| + | - date and time | ||
| + | - server IP | ||
| + | - source IP | ||
| + | - URL requested | ||
| + | - module/action/class responsible | ||
| + | - user ID | ||
| + | - description of the event | ||
| + | - severity level | ||
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| + | ===References=== | ||
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-US/library/aa302420.aspx#c04618429_004 | http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-US/library/aa302420.aspx#c04618429_004 | ||
Revision as of 01:40, 8 August 2007
The Problem
Identity Flow Through Application Layers
All web application security experts will tell you how important logging is [1][2][3][4]. How else can you detect attacks, successful or otherwise? Logs should allow you to replay a user's request lifecycle. In an enterprise web application, this is a lot of work and I'm not happy to tell you not many people are doing it right.
There's generally two things development teams have to figure out when architecting a logging strategy; what to log and when to log.
When to Log
There's sdfsdf sdfsdfsdf sdfsdfsdf
What to Log
- date and time - server IP - source IP - URL requested - module/action/class responsible - user ID - description of the event - severity level
References
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-US/library/aa302420.aspx#c04618429_004
