Version 1.1 of the BalaBit syslog-ng Store Box (SSB) has been released

Its main features include:

• High Availability improvements
• Enhanced reporting and statistics
• Searching and indexing
• Message classification extensions

syslog-ng Store Box

Central log collection and archiving

SSB offers a simple, reliable, and convenient way of collecting log messages centrally. It is essentially a high- capacity log server with high-availability support. Being able to collect logs from several different platforms makes it easy to integrate into any environment.

Secure log transfer and storage

Log messages often contain sensitive information and also form the base of audit trails for several applications. Preventing eavesdropping during message transfer and unauthorized access once the messages reach the logserver is essential for security and privacy reasons.

Automated log monitoring and log preprocessing

Monitoring log messages is an essential part of system-health monitoring and security incident detection and prevention. SSB offers a powerful platform that can classify tens of thousands of messages real-time to detect messages that deviate from regular messages, and promptly raise alerts. Although this classification does not offer as complete inspection as a log analyzing application, SSB can process much more messages than a regular log analyzing engine, and also filter out unimportant messages to decrease the load on the log analyzing application.

Policy compliance

Many organization must comply to regulations like the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX), the Basel II accord, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), or the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS). These regulations often have explicit or implicit requirements about log management, such as the central collection of log messages, the use of log analysis to prevent and detect security incidents, or guaranteeing the availability of log messages for an extended period of time - up to several years. SSB helps these organizations to comply with these regulations. Download video (avi, 170Mb)