If you’re handling sensitive information, dealing with data loss can be more than just a headache. Log management tools such as Graylog can enhance your incident response and management strategies, and help you mitigate the damage when a breach occurs in your database. Minimizing data loss with a fast and scalable logging solution is key if you want to bring your cybersecurity to the next level.

Nearly every business today uses some Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) application. From streamlined productivity to team communication, web applications drive business revenue outcomes. Simultaneously, these applications expand your company’s attack surface since every connection creates new access points that threat actors can use to compromise systems and networks.

It’s been a week. A long week. After the most recent Board of Directors meeting, your senior leadership tasked you with finding a security analytics solution. Over the last month, you’ve worked with leadership to develop some basic use cases to determine which solution meets your security and budget needs. You started your research, but everything on the market seems really overwhelming.

The Internet of Things (IoT) revolution has set the beginning of a new age of data transfer. Each day, a massive number of new devices get added to all kinds of network infrastructures, transferring gargantuan amounts of data back and forth. In the next decade, we expect the number of IoTs to grow to a staggering 207 billion connected devices – practically outnumbering the human population tenfold.

Welcome to Hardening Graylog, where we will help you encryptify your log supply. In this blog post, we will explore the importance of using Transport Layer Security (TLS) to secure your Graylog deployment. We will walk you through the steps to configure Graylog with certificates and keys, secure the Graylog web interface, and protect the communication between Graylog and OpenSearch backend. By the end of this blog post, you will have a fully secure and trusted log management system.

As I look at the range of API Management approaches that are recommended by various analysts, pundits, and vendors, I find it interesting that most don’t really know how to address “security” in the context of API management. In high-level API lifecycle management diagrams securing APIs is rarely called out visually, although it may be addressed briefly in an accompanying paragraph.

Do you need better insight into the overall state of your network security? Take a step back and look through the larger lens of the SIEM solution. Security information and event management (SIEM) is an approach to security management that combines two aspects: Coined in 2005 by Amrit Williams and Mark Nicolett of Gartner, the term SIEM now serves as a synonym for the gathering, analyzing, and presenting network and security information as well as external threat data and vulnerability management.

Before diving into our blog post topic, allow me to introduce myself. My name is Joel and I work with the solution engineering team at Graylog. Our primary task is to work with our customers and prospective clients on how to manage and make the most out of Graylog in their respective IT environments. One of our main tasks is to identify the logs sources they should incorporate and the kind of volumes they should anticipate.

An application’s attack surface is the sum of all the areas of an application which could be attacked by malicious attackers. This includes the application’s APIs, the underlying code, supporting infrastructure, and any other components which could be compromised. The goal for any organization is to reduce the attack surface area by discovering and minimizing potential vulnerabilities.

For as long as I can remember, I have started my day off by reading various security news sites to figure out what I need to be aware of and any new trends that are being spotted. I used to do this on my phone while commuting, and now I work from home, but I still follow this routine, and that got me thinking, why not feed Graylog with this information?