Logblog: Project Lasso Momentum Continues

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Project Lasso Momentum Continues

It has been a month since the open sourcing of Project Lasso. It has been extremely exciting and rewarding to see the community supporting and embracing the project.

A few quick updates on Project Lasso. First, the official repository for Project Lasso has finally been established on SourceForge. All project releases as well as the source code are now available there. LogLogic is committed to the ongoing development and support of Project Lasso. However, if you would like to contribute, in any form (development, testing, documentation), please do not hesitate to contact us. We are always looking for enthusiastic volunteers.

Second, since the release of Project Lasso, there were close to a thousand downloads of the Project Lasso binary and over 1500 viewings of the documentation. The activity level on lassolog.sourceforge.net remains extremely high and the community has been extremely supportive. We are starting to see Project Lasso used in many IT to centrally collect Windows events.

Third, in collaboration with our partner EMC, we have successfully collected audit logs from EMC's Celerra file server using Project Lasso. EMC's Celerra system is a high performance, and highly secured, Windows 2003 file server. Because of the hardened security settings, no agent solutions can be installed on the Celerra server. However, with Project Lasso's remote collection mechanism, we were able to collect the extensive file system audit logs provided by Celerra. These audit logs are essential to many companies security and compliance projects.

Many more exciting updates to come, stay tuned...

- Jian