According to Gartner 2010 should be a good year for vendors in the Log Management market. Gartner lists “Security – Activity Monitoring” as one of their top ten strategic technologies for 2010.
Gartner’s top ten states, “Information security professionals face the challenge of detecting malicious activity in a constant stream of discrete events that are usually associated with an authorized user and are generated from multiple network, system and application sources. At the same time, security departments are facing increasing demands for ever-greater log analysis and reporting to support audit requirements.”
It’s nice to see that more attention is going toward Log Management and SEIM, finally. I remember about five years ago, while I was at LogLogic, we had a meeting with a Gartner analyst who told us there was ‘no market for log management’. I disagreed, and I’m glad we listened to our customers more than the analyst.
