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Executive View
By Martin Kuppinger, Alexei Balaganski

Balabit syslog-ng

The Balabit syslog-ng product family provides technologies that allow collecting, processing, and analyzing log events from a variety of different sources, going well beyond the standard syslog component. The products are relevant both as a complement to and a replacement for standard SIEM solutions.
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1 Introduction

Balabit IT Security is an international information security vendor headquartered in Luxembourg. Founded in 2000 in Hungary, the company still maintai ...

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2 Product Description

Balabit syslog-ng is offered in three different editions. All of these editions add a number of capabilities to the standard syslogd. The entry level ...

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3 Strengths and Challenges

Balabit has greatly extended the standard syslogd utility towards enterprise-class solutions. This is already true for the Open Source Edition (OSE), ...

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4 Related Research

Executive View: Balabit syslog-ng – 71201
Executive View: Balabit Shell Control Box – 71570
Executive View: Balabit Blindspotter – 71571
Advisory Note: Real Time Security Intelligence – 71033

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