Monitoring Logs for Network Threats

How to Monitor for Network Security Threats (Day 24/30) Is a hacker on your

network right now? How would you even know? A "down" server is obvious,

but a "compromised" server is silent. You need to use your monitoring tools to hunt for

Indicators of Compromise. Start with your firewall logs. Are you seeing a huge number of "denied"

packets from one specific IP? That's a scan. Are you seeing a user account trying

to log in and failing 100 times in one minute? That's a brute-force attack.

Is a server inside your network suddenly trying to send data to a known malicious IP in another country?

That's a huge red flag. By monitoring logs for security events, you turn your monitoring