Site Security Planning

Auditing

A recent U.S. government computer site attack exercise found that fewer than 5 percent of the successful attacks were detected by network and systems administrators, and that even fewer were reported to authorities.

As you begin to do business with relative strangers, it becomes increasingly important to know who has connected to your site, when, and what actions they took. Law enforcement officials might need information about clandestine users coming in from anywhere in the world. You will need continuous auditing of the events occurring on your site.