[1] Provided as a free service to the IT community by Prism Microsystems, the aim of the Knowledge Base is to help IT personnel make sense of the large amounts of cryptic and arcane[2] log data generated by network systems and IT infrastructures.
Log data provides a record of all corporate system activity and is critical for improving security,[3] complying with requirements such as Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPAA[4] and PCI-DSS, and optimizing IT operations.
[5] However, given the large number of logs produced by different devices, their inherent obscurity and the lack of a standard logging format, system-specific expertise is typically needed to extract any meaningful intelligence.
[2] The Knowledge Base provides this expertise free of charge via a searchable web repository with the aim of making log data readily understandable by all.
[1] The Knowledge Base can be searched using any combination of event log ID, source or fragments of the description field.