Creating Your Own SIEM and Incident Response Toolkit Using Open Source Tools

This paper describes how one can use open source tools to create an incident response toolkit. A significant piece of your toolkit is a Security Information and Event Manager (SIEM), or the ability to store and process event logs. Two reasons you may want to create your own toolkit and SIEM are:...

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Jonny Sweeny

June 28, 2011

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