10.7. Wrapping Up

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Your system logs are like status reports. Without keeping a close eye on them, you are likely to miss something important and live to regret it. Fortunately, automated auditing tools make your job as a system administrator easier and help you be the instigator for incident response. When the incident response team conducts an audit, the care you take to configure logging across the systems you administer can make your life and their lives easier and facilitate getting answers, and getting back to the daily routine.

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    Mastering FreeBSD and OpenBSD Security
    Practical Guide to Software Quality Management (Artech House Computing Library)
    ISBN: 596006268
    EAN: 2147483647
    Year: 2003
    Pages: 142
    Authors: John W. Horch

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