[syslog-ng] syslog-ng Insider - February 2011

[Peter Czanik]

Dear syslog-ng users, 

This is the first 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 at balabit.com


FEATURED NEWS

BalaBit has been invited to the CEE Board
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Common Event Expression (CEE) for Event Interoperability is a US 
govermental task force aiming to standardize the way computer events 
are described, logged, and exchanged. A part of CEE will define a 
generic dictionary for event fields, which will be handy for the 
syslog-ng patterndb project.

More information on CEE: http://cee.mitre.org/about.html

Current members of CEE Board: http://cee.mitre.org/board.html

Related blog posts:

* http://bazsi.blogs.balabit.com/2010/11/patterndb-goes-cee/

* http://czanik.blogs.balabit.com/2010/11/cee/



FOSDEM - Free and Open Source Developers European Meeting
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Peter Czanik from the syslog-ng upstream attended the conference to help 
include the most recent syslog-ng versions into the main distributions.

Read his blog post at http://czanik.blogs.balabit.com/2011/02/fosdem/



Support the syslog-ng project with your testimonial!
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We have launched a public site for collecting user feedbacks and 
testimonials. Please help us to improve syslog-ng and tell us your 
opinion (both negative and positive), experience, feature request, or 
why you use syslog-ng at http://www.balabit.com/testimonials/send



OTHER SHORT NEWS

* A new syslog-ng driver for the mongodb() NOSQL database is available 
  in 3.3 alpha1: 
  http://asylum.madhouse-project.org/projects/syslog-ng/mongodb/

* systemd support for recent operating systems:
  https://lists.balabit.hu/pipermail/syslog-ng/2011-February/015876.html

* Debian 6.0 repositories include syslog-ng OSE 3.1: 
  http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=syslog-ng&searchon=names&suite=stable&section=all



NEW RELEASES OF THE SYSLOG-NG PRODUCT FAMILY

* syslog-ng OSE 3.3 alpha1 - http://bazsi.blogs.balabit.com/2010/12/threading-epoll-on-3-3-mainline/

* syslog-ng PE 4.0 - http://attila.blogs.balabit.com/2011/02/balabit%e2%80%99s-syslog-ng-premium-edition-4-0-now-available/



RECENT WHITEPAPERS

* Message Classification with syslog-ng
  (Free download)
  http://www.balabit.com/whitepapers/log-classification

* Performance measurements of syslog-ng Premium Edition 4.0 
  (Requires registration at balabit.com)
  http://www.balabit.com/support/documentation/syslog-ng-pe-v4.0-whitepaper-performance-en.pdf 

* PCI compliance and forensics in auditing remote server access
  (Free download)
  http://www.balabit.com/sites/default/files/scb-v3.0-whitepaper-pci-compliance-forensics-en.pdf