Log Management and Intelligence - Deployment Life-cycle

Deployment Life-cycle

One view of assessing the maturity of an organization in terms of the deployment of log-management tools might use successive categories such as:

• Level 1: in the initial stages, organizations use different log-analyzers for analyzing the logs in the devices on the security-perimeter. They aim to identify the patterns of attack on the perimeter infrastructure of the organization.

• Level 2: with increased use of integrated computing, organizations mandate logs to identify the access and usage of confidential data within the security-perimeter.

• Level 3: at the next level of maturity, the log analyzer can track and monitor the performance and availability of systems at the level of the enterprise — especially of those information-assets whose availability organizations regard as vital.

• Level 4: organizations integrate the logs of various business-applications into an enterprise log manager for better value proposition.

• Level 5: organizations merge the physical-access monitoring and the logical-access monitoring into a single view.