SecurityPortal: Ask Buffy – ports; log search tools, DNS – UDP or TCP

From SecurityPortal: Ask Buffy – ports; log search tools, DNS – UDP or TCP [via Linux Today]:

Log Tool

We have all these NT 4.0 logs, but it there a tool that can help sift
through information and present it with meaning? With regard to security,
I just want to get to the information that I need. I need to get to this
information quickly. Do you have any suggestions?

Kevin M Moker

 

This is a subject for which there is a ton of information available.
There is an excellent FAQ available at:

http://www.heysoft.de/nt/eventlog/faq.htm

And an entire book on the subject available from O’Reilly:

http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/winlog/

As for actual products that will monitor your log files and respond to
events, there are several dozen solutions; for example:

http://www.sql-server-performance.com/event_log_monitor.asp

http://www.ipsentry.com/dlfiles/addins/ipsevmon.htm

http://www.eventreporter.com/

You can also export NT event logs, using a variety of products, to UNIX
syslog machines and use your favorite syslog monitoring tool.

Buffy (buffy@securityportal.com)

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