Articles By: syslog-ng

High Level Splunk Use-Case Webcast

In today’s heterogeneous environments, you collect logs from a variety of sources and forward them to multiple destinations, which often requires special purpose agents. The need to maintain a large number of logging agents creates operational complexity and costly overhead, and updating, maintaining and configuring these agents is a time-consuming activity.

White Paper: How to Configure Syslog-Ng™ PE to Cooperate With Splunk

Splunk is a popular search and analysis platform. Many users of Splunk also have syslog-ng™ deployed in their environments. This guideline describes scenarios in which Splunk users can benefit from syslog-ng™ Premium Edition features and offers some technical guidance to optimize the syslog-ng™ configuration.

The 1m+ EPS UDP Ingestion Challenge

Even in 2019, many organizations rely on UDP to ship syslog messages from endpoints to Splunk where TCP transport is either not feasible or desirable. Scaling UDP ingestion with no message loss is far from a trivial task.

How to use the syslog-ng PE’s new Google Stackdriver destination

Google Stackdriver is a flexible and convenient way to monitor and manage your cloud-based assets, regardless of where they are located or how they are configured. If your organization is completely in the cloud, has apps on Google Cloud or Amazon Web Services, or if you manage a hybrid environment, Stackdriver is a terrific solution.

Five Things Every Business Needs to Know About GDPR

RE-EXAMINE YOUR PROCEDURES AND ENSURE COMPLIANCE After years of preparation and drafting, the final t’s were crossed and i’s dotted on the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), when the Council of the European Union and the European Parliament adopted it. It means that it’s time to stop thinking about GDPR and to start acting.

NIST Cybersecurity Framework

The second function within the framework entitled “Protect”, places great emphasis on managing privileged authorized user access to critical assets. In order to manage and supervise connections to critical assets, organizations commonly invest in some form of access monitoring technology.

Optimizing SIEM

Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) solutions form the core of many organizations’ security strategy, but SIEMs can be expensive, eat up storage and get overwhelmed by the amount and number of formats of log data that they need to process.

Upgrade to State-of-the-Art Log Management

system logs of servers, network devices, and applications.