Understanding security logging and monitoring failures

When monitoring the security posture of an organization, cybersecurity professionals need to ensure all their systems, devices, and applications are providing sufficient logs such as login attempts, configuration changes, and network traffic anomalies to their Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) tool and their logging servers for accountability. Each log message will contain specific identifiers such as time and date stamps, user and process identifiers, details about the error messages, and even the 5-tuple (source IP address, destination IP address, source port number, destination port number, and protocol). If web applications and web servers do not provide sufficient logging, it is very challenging for cybersecurity professionals to detect and determine what occurred during a system breach. In addition, secure log management practices include the encryption of log data, access controls, and regular verification...