Enterprise interest in log management is heating up as compliance requirements push organizations to get a grip on their log data. No one compliance requirement is driving interest in log management, Henry said. A couple years ago, SOX was the top concern since it spurred most new audit efforts but now log data is important for demonstrating an organization’s controls for a variety of regulations, he added But Dave Shackleford, vice president at the nonprofit Center for Internet Security and a SANS instructor, said the PCI Data Security Standard in particular is helping to make log management a hot topic in the enterprise.