by Ericka Chickowski, Contributing Writer
Sure, complicated technology and poorly thought-out platform deployments have been known to slow down the effective use of security monitoring and logging tools over the years. But many experts believe that human nature remains the biggest impediment to the success of security monitoring and IT monitoring in general.
Departmental politics, bureaucratic fiefdoms, and petty personal motives can all play a big role in breaking the best of monitoring intentions. Rick Caccia vice president of product marketing of HP's ArcSight recently had this fact illustrated vividly when he visited a security professional in the field. The security guy was an ArcSight customer who had used the SIEM for security logging and correlation for some time, but whose company used a different product to collect logs for IT operations. Many organizations take every precaution to protect themselves from threats external to the organization, but often, it's the internal threat that can do the most damage. Jon Heimerl's article on Bloomberg Businessweek offers employers some simple steps they can take to protect the organization as employees leave.
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