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Security Logging Basics

Log for security investigations

Security logs should include authentication events, admin actions, config changes, access to sensitive data, and anomaly signals, with retention, integrity, and alerting tuned for threat detection.

Capture

Auth successes/failures, admin actions, config changes.

Protect and Retain

Ensure integrity, restrict access, and set retention per risk.

Use

Feed SIEM; alert on anomalies and brute-force patterns.

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