Re: [PEN-TEST] Analyzing Audit Log Data (incl. syslog)

[Shaggy <mailtech2 () YAHOO COM>]

I've seen a particularly useful way of handling this.
One Company I've seen downloads syslog, sulog and
other
log data to a syslog server on an exported file
system.  An NT server with an NFS client accesses this
data, which then serves as input into an Excel pivot
table that massages the data into an easy-to-analyze
format for the sys admin.  A VB script is executed on
the data and any unusual activity these scripts are
configured to identify appears in a formatted report,
which then gets emailed to the appropriate person
automatically.

A minor pain to get set up, but a snap to analyze the
data.


--- Richard Hutchinson
<Richard.Hutchinson () OAG STATE TX US> wrote:
> Michael:
>
> I have been using a program for the last year or two
> to analyze data, to include audit log programs.  It
> will take a text file, ODBC compliant database file,
> ASCII, PCASCII, EBCDIC, etc. and read the data into
> a format you can filter in any manner you want, such
> as a particular userID.  It is a really
> sophisticated query program built specifically for
> auditing large data files.  The name is Audit
> Command Language.  They have a demo version that
> will take a small file (48k) and do all the things
> the full blown program will.  You can check it out
> at www.acl.com, if your are interested.
>
>
>
> _______________________________
> Richard Hutchinson, CISA, CIA
> IS Audit Manager
> Internal Audit Division
> Texas Office of the Attorney General
> 512-475-4927
> E-Mail:  richard.hutchinson () oag state tx us
>
>
> > > > graham_michael () HOTMAIL COM 27 September, 2000
> I hope this is the right sort of question.
>
> Does anyone know of a package/application that uses
> the info created in the
> Audit log of say NT or UNIX and enables
> administrators to drill down and get
> info about users' movements like if someone is
> accessing loads of sensitive
> files/directories on a given day etc.
>
> The reason I ask is this, the Audit log doles out
> loads of info however I
> want to be able to interrogate it and apply
> particular search routines to
> it, to get that salient info only.
>
> cheers
>
> Mike
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