The Importance of Strategic Logging

Elevate Your Cyber Resilience

In today’s digital landscape, businesses must understand what they log and why it is critical to their ongoing cyber resilience. The harsh reality is that many organisations only realise the inadequacy of their logging practices after an incident occurs. Often, logs are either insufficiently captured or not analysed, leaving gaps in security.

The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), in collaboration with international agencies, has issued essential guidance on the importance of logging through their Best Practices for Event Logging and Threat Detection. This guidance addresses the dual challenges of timely incident detection and the ability to retrace a threat actor’s steps to confirm the time of compromise. Without proper logging, investigations, restorations, and threat eradication efforts are severely hampered, as backups may be infected or unavailable.

To mitigate these risks, it is imperative for organisations to establish a robust logging and monitoring strategy. This strategy should define use cases for alerting, compliance, and forensic scenarios, informed by threat scenarios that dictate which systems need logging, how logs will be stored, retention policies, and alert mechanisms for security operations teams.

DEFEND is here to empower your business. We offer comprehensive services to help you understand your threat landscape, build use cases, and develop a strategic logging and monitoring architecture. Our expertise extends to designing, building, and implementing solutions, as well as providing ongoing operational support through our intelligent Cybersecurity Ecosystem (iCE) managed security services.

Take action now to fortify your cyber resilience

Partner with DEFEND to ensure your logging practices are robust, effective, and aligned with best practices.

Contact us today to start building a more secure future for your business. Call 0800 2 DEFEND or email us at information@defend.co.nz.