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Russian Roulette Network Security

The concept of Russian Roulette Network Security graphically describes the notion that you come into work every day put a bullet in the chamber and spin it... As you manually search for "suspicious activity" in your log files, you're asking yourself the question "Is today going to be the day I discover that I've been hacked?"  Sadly, even if you were hacked, the odds aren’t good that this kind of "log analysis" would reveal it.

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Slow And Silent Targeted Attacks On the Rise

This headline from a recent Dark Reading article is important.  The reality is that stealing identity and credit card data is big business. Thieves aren't interested in attracting attention. Their goal is simple – steal as much money as they can without being detected. Unfortunately, the article suggests that the solution for dealing with this threat is keeping log data for longer periods of time to provide a broader set of historical data for analysis.

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