Security Solutions: Readable log files

Security logs are the information backbone of security administration. In this week's Security Solutions TechMail column, Mike Mullins provides four rules for security logging. What additional best practices do you suggest? Do you have a tool that you use to decipher and correlate log files with specific security devices?

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