Keeping and maintaining data logs is a corporate best practice and, in many cases, when you consider regulation and industry standards, it?s the law.
Still, few companies take advantage of the benefits of log maintenance when it comes to detecting and responding to data breaches. In fact, according to Verizon?s 2011 Data Breach Investigations Report, less than one percent of the breaches analyzed were discovered through log analysis, while 69 percent of those breaches were detectable via log evidence.