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G2000 Logjam Continues To Spur Log Management Says SANS Survey
We teamed up with the SANS Institute again this year to survey the G2000 on the trends driving log management and intelligence. You can dowload a copy of the preliminary findings of the 2007 Log Management Survey or sign up to attend a webcast presentation of the results with SANS on June 6th.
Based on last year's findings SANS Institute CEO Stephen Northcutt said:
"In our analysis, we found that G2000 IT leaders are today not only validating the use case for log intelligence, but are signaling the increased need for the market to evolve even further with log services that cost-effectively allow them to exchange information with other solutions."
The 2007 survey saw that trend continue to evolve. Polling more than 650 IT professionals in government, financial services, banking, manufacturing, healthcare, telecommunications, and education sectors from the North American Global 2000 (G2000) - Forbes's comprehensive list of the world's biggest companies, key findings:
· Log data monitoring continues to grow exponentially. Of those surveyed over 61% report using log data to assess IT incidents and minimize downtime (an increase of 24% over 2006 survey results).
· Log data retention is up significantly, but most of the G200 and G2000 are still failing to meet compliance regulations. Despite regulatory recommendations or requirements that logs be maintained for three to five years, 11% say they keep log files between 30 and 90 days, 10% retain data for six months and 5% less than 30 days. Remarkably, a full 14% say are not sure how long they keep log data, relying on the system default as defined by their operating system.
· Security while important is not the prime motivation for log management. More than half of those surveyed reported operations management and monitoring the health of the network as the prime motivation for using log data. 43% indicated compliance with SOX, PCI and other mandates as the top priority.
· The quantity of stored log data is rising. 57% percent of survey respondents store logs from as many as 500 sources.
To receive a preview copy of the 2007 Log Management Survey, sign up here. To attend the webcast, sign up at the SANS Institute.
Posted May 31, 2007 in Compliance , Log Management & Intelligence , Security | Permalink
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