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From the course: Static Application Security Testing
Logging and monitoring policy
- [Jared] Have you ever heard the phrase, "Pictures or it didn't happen"? That phrase is uncannily accurate when it comes to security events as well. That's why you should round out your documentation review by taking a close look at your company's logging and monitoring policy. I mentioned earlier that I've worked on a number of security incidents throughout my career. I've worked multiple incidents where the impacted organization did not have a logging and monitoring policy. More importantly, they didn't have the log data that I needed to determine exactly what happened, including whether sensitive, regulated data was stolen. Logging and monitoring is no joke. Weak and non-existent logging and monitoring controls can contribute to a business-ending event. At a high level, log management is just generating and storing system and application logs so you can look at them later. When it comes to application security…
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