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**Survey is now closed, thank you to everyone who provided feedback!** Hi All, We are considering making some improvements to Orion's log management capabilities. We'd really like to hear how members of the Thwack community are managing log data in your environments and are therefore running a Log Management Survey and…
Last Friday I got to see a presentation by Tom Ervin, a Cyber Squad Computer Scientist with the FBI in San Antonio hack into computers in a demo at the local InfraGard meeting. It was pretty cool - at one point Tom asked for a volunteer / victim, who was seated before a PC near the front. On the main display, Tom acted as…
It is my pleasure to announce the release of LEM 6.0. Head on over to the customer portal to download your copy and enjoy the following new features (assuming you have active maintenance): * File Integrity Monitoring for Windows* Real-time monitoring of your files and folders including file reads, writes, deletes,…
Meeting Security and Compliance Customer Needs EasyStreet uses SolarWinds Log & Event Manager (LEM) to provide Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) to their private cloud customers. As a cloud services provider, EasyStreet offers a spectrum of services, with SIEM and Log Management as recent additions. I spoke…
Now that SEM 2020.4 is generally available, all major functionality has been migrated to HTML5 interface and we will be pivoting to bring new features to SEM. Here is what we're working on, in no particular order: * Microsoft 365 Events: Support for Microsoft 365 audit logs from sources including Azure Active Directory,…
I attended Austin BSides on March 20. What a great event for security practitioners. I learned more in the one day for the princely sum of $10 than many $3000 RSA trips!! BSides is dominated by security practitioners sharing their expertise, rather than vendors tirelessly (and tiresomely) plugging products. Here is a photo…
Tom Endean recently published a review of Log & Event Manager (LEM) It is a comprehensive look at LEM, from installation to utilization. The review includes details on the real time analysis and nDepth search features of LEM. It has a couple of fun examples of LEM in action with Active Response: * Showing LEM catching a…
I’ve been at SolarWinds almost 4 weeks now and I’ve been sitting in on a lot of prospect sales calls, to get a feel for SolarWinds Log & Event Manager (LEM) customers and their use cases for SIEM and Log Management. A surprising number already have Splunk, but it does not appear to be satisfying them. LEM, like most SIEMs,…
I attended the Austin ISSA-sponsored Advanced Splunk Training session on March 6. As always, the ISSA chapter delivered meaty technical training, and it was free! The event was co-sponsored by BSides and Splunk. While all kinds of interesting Splunk technical info was presented, for me, the most interesting part was…
Javvad won “Most Entertaining Security Blogger” at RSA 2013. We had to check that out! Turns out, his security videos ROCK! He explains really dry, boring and complicated security topics in a fun and completely palatable way. Plus, with the videos, no pesky reading is involved KB: HOW DID YOU GET STARTED BLOGGING? JM: In…
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