[attrition] Book Review: Security Log Management

[lyger]

http://attrition.org/~lyger/works/reviews/SLMreview.html

Security Log Management
Identifying Patterns in the Chaos
Multiple Authors - Amazon.com
ISBN: 1-59749-042-3
Syngress Publishing, Inc, Copyright 2006

I have to admit, this book wasn't entirely what I expected. For several 
chapters, I was introduced to more shell scripting, PHP scripting, and 
poorly printed screen shots than what I would generally expect from a book 
that at first appeared to have been directed towards security analysts 
instead of system administrators and web developers. However, despite its 
flaws, "Security Log Management" does have its merits during its middle 
chapters which aren't based on excessive code snippets and blatant 
endorsements for Microsoft's Log Parser.

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