Panel: Handling the Demands of Event Logging to Improve the Nation’s Cybersecurity

The freshly minted executive order on improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity is a critical step forward in protecting our nation against the increasing volume and dangers of cyber attacks. The order is unquestionably setting the right direction but its execution brings with it several challenges that will confront all agencies. One of the largest of those challenges is the handling of event data. Even at the simplest levels handling the rates of data from app logs, system logs, security logs, network devices, network traffic is hard to do and even harder to do cost effectively. Now add the retention requirements laid out in the order for most of the data: 12 months active and 18 months cold and the amount of data persisted at any given time will become monumental. Let’s consider that most agencies have distributed and hybrid compute environments. Data must be collected from all of them but sending it all over the network to CSPs can cause monumental issues with network utilization and costs. Now we have to figure out how to process and analyze it. This session will talk to a panel of experts about the approaches and considerations in tackling the important demands of cyber defense.

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