Chapter 2
What is a Log?
Information in this chapter:
Logs? What logs?
Criteria of Good Logging
What is a log? A secret
Let’s crack it now!
Resist it will furiously
Haiku 2: Anton
Introduction
In Chapter 1 we talked about logs, but what are we actually talking about? We’re not talking about trees, mathematics, nor ship’s logs…so let’s start from the definitions. Having a clear definitions around logging data is important because so many discussions in this area and that being high level and fuzzy, thus not useful for security analysts and network ...
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