Dear syslog-ng users, This is the 11th issue of the syslog-ng Insider, a monthly newsletter that brings you syslog-ng related news. Your feedback and news tips about the next issue is welcome at documentation@balabit.com <mailto:documentation@balabit.com> FEATURED NEWS Brno: Fedora, CEE, journal and syslog-ng ---------------------------------------- Last week the Brno Red Hat office hosted two conferences, one small about logging and the Fedora Developer conference. The logging miniconf covered some very hot topics: CEE, journal, auditd and some lesser known projects, like ELAPI. After the formal program, we had some very good discussions about the future of logging. You can check the diagram drawn up as conclusion here: https://czanik.blogs.balabit.com/2012/02/brno-fedora-cee-journal-and-syslog-... And read more about how syslog-ng supports CEE: http://algernon.blogs.balabit.com/2012/02/cee-handling-with-syslog-ng/ BalaBit has just released the latest version of its leading log management tool, syslog-ng 4 F2 ------------------------------- Adding to the existing, rich feature set which includes high-performance multi-thread processing, encrypted and timestamped log files, disk-based buffering, direct database access, native TLS support, the syslog-ng 4 F2 now supports Application-levelAcknowledgement via Reliable Log Transport Protocol (RLTP)^TM , a new transport protocol that prevents message loss during connection breaks. In addition, the latest version of syslog-ng can now natively collect and process log messages from SQL databases enabling users to easily manage log messages from a wide variety of enterprise software and custom applications. syslog-ng 3.3.4 is released --------------------------- It is a bugfix release, which fixes all previously known problems in the 3.3 series. There is only one change in 3.3 sources since the last release: manual pages were put under the GPL, and XML sources are now also available, so that the entire source code of syslog-ng is free from this point onwards. Sources are available at http://www.balabit.com/network- <http://www.balabit.com/network-security/syslog-ng/opensource-logging-system/downloads/download>security/syslog-ng/opensource-logging-system/downloads/download <http://www.balabit.com/network-security/syslog-ng/opensource-logging-system/downloads/download> Packages for some distributions are available from http://www.balabit.com/network-security/syslog-ng/opensource-logging-system/... Detailed changelog is available at http://www.balabit.com/files/syslog-ng/open-source-edition/3.3.4/changelog-e... Documentation was also updated: http://www.balabit.com/support/documentation/documents/syslog-ng-ose-3.3-gui... EU Data Protection Directive – How a single regulation could boost the transparency in IT security? -------------------------------- Personal opinion from Balázs Scheidler, CEO of BalaBit Overall, the *EU Data Protection Directive can be a milestone in boosting the transparency of IT security at* organizations – similarly to the regulatory compliance regulations after the Enron case. If adopted, the new directive could bring about a change in *the implementation of IT security policies so that the current focus on audits could shift to the deeper integration of IT security processes into business processes. *As logging and log management are the base of every monitoring method, *technologies with high-speed and zero message loss capabilities, like syslog-ng, will come to the front.* Encrypting log files, in which companies store user names, passwords and other sensitive company data is also key to prevent data loss. http://bscheidler.blogs.balabit.com/2012/02/eu-data-protection-directive-how... OTHER SHORT NEWS * What makes the upcoming v3.4 even more flexible? It's summarized by Bazsi, lead developer of syslog-ng at http://bazsi.blogs.balabit.com/2012/01/syslog-ng-flexibility-improvements/ Watch out for an upcoming Alpha version! * There are still many syslog-ng v2.0 users. For those, here is a teaser, what changed since that release: http://czanik.blogs.balabit.com/2012/02/whats-new-in-syslog-ng-3-x/ * A syslog-ng presentation for FOSDEM: http://czanik.blogs.balabit.com/2012/02/fosdem-syslog-ng-as-upstream/ * ELSA, the high performance web GUI for syslog-ng, received a very useful new feature, post processing of search results: http://ossectools.blogspot.com/2012/01/hunting-with-elsa-transforms.html NEW RELEASES: * syslog-ng OSE 3.3.4: https://lists.balabit.hu/pipermail/syslog-ng-announce/2012-January/000133.ht... * syslog-ng PE 4F2 ARCHIVE http://insider.blogs.balabit.com/ -- Peter Czanik (CzP)<czanik@balabit.hu> BalaBit IT Security / syslog-ng upstream http://czanik.blogs.balabit.com/