Understanding the role of logging and monitoring in detective controls with Kailash Havildar

Episode No: 65

This episode with Kailash Havildar dives deep into logging and monitoring, your secret weapons for prevention, detection, and remediation.

We'll uncover best practices, tackle common challenges, and show you how organizations can leverage threat intelligence and user behavior to stay ahead of cyberattacks.
Network Segmentation

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Learnings from the podcast

  1. Standardization of logs is very important when designing a Centralized Logging and Monitoring solution. Both from a security and also from an engineering perspective.
  2. When it comes to Logging, start with User Logs, System Logs, Config Logs, Network Logs, in that order to analyze for Detecting Security issues.
  3. For Prevention Controls, start with Regions, Services, Access and Configuration controls. This helps organizations approach security in a structured manner.

Learning resources recommended by Kailash Havildar

  1. THE CODE BOOK

    The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography. The Code Book tells the story of the most powerful intellectual weapon ever known: secrecy. Throughout the text are clear technological and mathematical explanations, and portrayals of the remarkable personalities who wrote and broke the world's most difficult codes.

    Get your copy of the book from Amazom >



  2. Darknet Diaries

    This is a podcast about hackers, breaches, shadow government activity, hacktivism, cybercrime, and all the things that dwell on the hidden parts of the network. This is Darknet Diaries.

    Visit Darknet Diaries >

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