Web Application Security, what about your logs?
As usual, another very nice post from Mike Rothman, this time about application security. He is mentioning the BSI-MM model, that I mentioned here too in the context of measuring the outcome of security measures.Mike also mentioned, again, the need to REACT FASTER (have I said how nice his "Pragmatic CSO" stuff is?) and linked it to the application security world. As I'm working a lot with log management these days I noticed that I'm not seeing people talking about what to do with their Web and application server logs. A lot of attacks against web applications can be identified in the logs, and yet we don't see people collecting and analyzing them. Is there anybody out there with good results on "web log" correlation? I'd like to see how evolved this is and how can it help as an early warning system for attacks against web applications.