[syslog-ng] syslog-ng Insider - February 2012

[Peter Czanik]

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 at balabit.com <mailto:documentation at balabit.com>


FEATURED NEWS


Brno: Fedora, CEE, journal and syslog-ng

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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-ng/

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

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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

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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/downloads/3rd_party


Detailed changelog is available at 
http://www.balabit.com/files/syslog-ng/open-source-edition/3.3.4/changelog-en.txt


Documentation was also updated: 
http://www.balabit.com/support/documentation/documents/syslog-ng-ose-3.3-guides/syslog-ng-ose-v3.3-guide-admin-en.html/bk01-toc.html


EU Data Protection Directive – How a single regulation could boost the 
transparency in IT security?

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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-a-single-regulation-could-boost-the-transparency-in-it-security/


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/

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    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:

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    syslog-ng OSE 3.3.4:
    https://lists.balabit.hu/pipermail/syslog-ng-announce/2012-January/000133.html

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    syslog-ng PE 4F2

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Peter Czanik (CzP)<czanik at balabit.hu>
BalaBit IT Security / syslog-ng upstream
http://czanik.blogs.balabit.com/