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According to Kevin Madura, SVP at global consulting firm AlixPartners, businesses should turn on "more verbose logging" everywhere possible – within computational and financial restraints of course – including for applications, application servers, Web servers, load balancers, and network appliances such as firewalls, switches, routers, and endpoints.
"It's critical to log at these different points within the network, which can be useful for investigators to understand how the attacker got in and how they pivoted within the network, as well as where they went after initial intrusion," he says. "This also helps determine which systems and data may have been compromised during the attack to determine if any other systems should be examined forensically."
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A prolific writer and analyst, Pam Baker's published work appears in many leading publications. She's also the author of several books, the most recent of which is "Data Divination: Big Data Strategies." Baker is also a popular speaker at technology conferences and a member ... View Full Bio
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