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LogLogic is committed to growing the global log management and intelligence community. Over the coming months we’ll be adding much to this site. on what you would like to see.

Project Lasso

LogLogic has released Project Lasso to the global log management and intelligence community. Project Lasso is a LogLogic-sponsored and community-supported open source project that promotes rapid development of innovative technologies for monitoring any kind of Windows event. Available at no cost for download from LogLogic.com, the Project Lasso reference design release is the first in a series of community initiatives from LogLogic intended to encourage developers, IT professionals, and other technologists to participate in and accelerate the technology development process around Windows log files and their management. It is our aim that Project Lasso represents a viable open source alternative to, or complement to, Microsoft’s more proprietary Windows event collection infrastructure form.

Origins

Project Lasso builds on the success of the Intersect Alliance’s Snare for Windows open source project.

Centralized Windows Log Management

Responding to customer feedback, LogLogic architected and implemented Project Lasso to provide centralized log management, eliminating the need to manage individual agents, and, greatly reducing the impact on monitored servers in terms of storage and processing.

LogLogic also incorporated improved and reliable transport of log data in the form of TCP Syslog. In addition to the standard Windows event logs, Project Lasso can also capture application-specific and custom Windows event logs.. LogLogic anticipates releasing similar community initiatives for enterprise software applications that produce non-ASCII local log files over the course of the next twelve months and invites interested developers and partners to participate in the project.

Automating Compliance

Project Lasso was designed to enable log data to be captured to support emerging reporting requirements for IT controls such as COBIT 4.0 and ISO17799 that are commonly being deployed to address regulations including Sarbanes-Oxley, PCI, HIPAA and BASEL II. Windows event collection through Project Lasso gives auditors a detailed record of user activity, including which files, objects and applications were touched when.

LogLogic & Open Source

Project Lasso will also be offered as part of LogLogic’s award winning log management and intelligence platform. LogLogic appliances make broad use of open source technologies including Linux, MySQL, Lucene and Tomcat.