Talk:Security log

A fact from Security log appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 28 September 2007. The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that hackers and rogue administrators often seek to eliminate evidence of their unauthorized activities by manipulating the Microsoft Windows Security Log?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2007/September.

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This page is too brief for my liking. It fails to indicate the importance of security logs of all sorts - not just computer security logs. For example, a printed or handwritten log recording access to a controlled building, room, rack, document or some other controlled resource could also be called a security log - a "visitors' book" for instance, or a "maintenance log".

Furthermore, the comment about UNIX systems not logging is distinctly misleading. In my experience, logging is almost universal on servers, regardless of operating system: it is a necessary part of system and security management. Accountability is an important purpose e.g. recording and time-stamping events, alarms and alerts, error messages etc., indicating their sources/causes. NoticeBored (talk) 01:17, 28 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]